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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2748552, member: 2844"]That is the way in Java and Madura, where the spiritual aspect is the most important and the keris was generally only used as a last resort protective weapon. </p><p>The Balinese were always more 'martial' (not martian <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" />), and their keris were also used as a regular weapon as well as status and spirituality. But given Joe's age, it is very likely that he was only used for status and spiritual significance.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have very few Balinese keris because of that different view of the purpose of the keris. The same goes for keris from the other keris regions. I have a few from those regions, but nearly all are women's keris. The detail I posted above, the 'white keris' is also a woman's keris. The white is wood, btw, not ivory or bone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2748552, member: 2844"]That is the way in Java and Madura, where the spiritual aspect is the most important and the keris was generally only used as a last resort protective weapon. The Balinese were always more 'martial' (not martian :p), and their keris were also used as a regular weapon as well as status and spirituality. But given Joe's age, it is very likely that he was only used for status and spiritual significance.:) I have very few Balinese keris because of that different view of the purpose of the keris. The same goes for keris from the other keris regions. I have a few from those regions, but nearly all are women's keris. The detail I posted above, the 'white keris' is also a woman's keris. The white is wood, btw, not ivory or bone.[/QUOTE]
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