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>Costume Studies
>>1902 Moro datu
>>>swords
>>>>kalis
Subjectdatu chief
CultureMoro
Setting: Spanish, American wars, Mindanao-Sulu 1851-1913
Objectkalis kris and similar double-edged short swords = balasiong, gunong



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* Farrow Fine Art
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* Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América
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* Higgins Armory Museum


* Museo Nacional de Antropologia > Religiones Orientales
"Kriss.  
Filipinas. Siglo XIX  
Espada utilizada por los musulmanes del Sur de Filipinas."
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​* Windlass Steelcrafts
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​Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Swords (kris suluk or sundang)
  Philippine, Moro, 19th century  The form of kris used in the Philippines is distinctive.
  It has a long, heavy blade, and a wooden hilt with a 'cockatoo' pommel,
 usually bound to the blade with brass straps.
  These kris were made principally in Mindanao, and used by the Sulu and Moro people." ...






​* de Vries Antiek
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* Petronas
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* cf.
>1780 Iranun pirate sword kalis
>1870 Malay lanun sword keris sundang