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>>1808 Sundanese kiyayi
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Subject: kiyayi
Culture: Sundanese
Setting: Banten sultanate and successors, Sunda straits / west Java 18-19thc
Object: keris kris dagger





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​Tropenmuseum > Zuidoost-Azië *
"Krisgrepen in de vorm van een zittende demon.  Ivoor.  Cirebon, West-Java, Indonesië.  18e eeuw of vroeger."
"Kris hilts in the shape of a sitting demon.  Ivory.  Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia.  18th century or earlier."








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​* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Sword (kris)  Javanese  
The bone hilt is in the form of a seated Nyamba (theatre figure).  
The wranka is of horn and the pendok of silver." ...

Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Sword (kris)  Javanese  The hilt is in the form of a lampong [SIC] Garuda figure.
  The ganja (a separate piece forming the shoulder of a kris blade)
 is carved and formerly gilt with a winged lion and foliage." ...