A BALINESE KRIS, a straight iron blade wrought with a naga, various male and female figures and a nine-stored pagode, with some gold incrustation, the ivory hilt carved as probably a Sissia, its body covered by long waving hair, his face with bulging eyes, ivory wrongka, wooden scabbard with tortoise shell inlay

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A BALINESE KRIS, a straight iron blade wrought with a naga, various male and female figures and a nine-stored pagode, with some gold incrustation, the ivory hilt carved as probably a Sissia, its body covered by long waving hair, his face with bulging eyes, ivory wrongka, wooden scabbard with tortoise shell inlay
56 cm long
Exhibited
De Kunst van Bali, verleden en heden, 23 maart - 1 mei 1961, Haags Gemeentemuseum, no. 192

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