Featured Bronze (brass) sacred cow

You probably missed this answer @Belgaqueen :

I forgot to post the 7 sacred metals yesterday, but here they are: Copper, tin, lead, zinc, gold, silver, mercury. I said before, mercury is regarded as a metal in this case.
Percentages vary, but are generally in the order I put them in, from highest to lowest. It can be surprising, I tested a ceremonial knife from West Java, Indonesia and the result was 10 carat gold content. That is not the case with yours, the colour is different.

 

Born in the USA...moved to Belgium with parents when I was 17..lived in Brussels for years and moved to the Brabant Wallon (Jauche) a year ago

 

Good to have a fellow Brabantse (would that be Brabançonne, like the anthem?) on Antiquers. Adoptive or not, that is what you are now. You can have multiple identities, after all.

 

And indeed...I do

 

I know the feeling. Maybe confusing at times, but more often enriching.

 

wow,can i see the picture of your knife?

 

I'll have to take some. It is a Kujang Siliwangi with a lot of symbolism. I also have a Hindu era Kujang, a true beauty. To me at least.

This is the Kujang Hindu without 'clothing', it is now reunited with the Cirebon keris style hilt and sheath it came in:


It is said the three holes either stand for the three kingdoms on Java at the time it was made, or for the Trimurti: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.
With some imagination you can see the shape of Java in the Kujang.

I am usually more of a keris person, but if another ceremonial knife or dagger speaks to me, it is welcome. My keris are mostly from Java and Madura.

 

@Silver Wolf I don't think it wants to be photographed. In spite of the sunny day every photo comes out royal blue. Appropriate maybe, Siliwangi was a king....
I'll see if it is in a more photographic mood tomorrow.

 

yeah with a little imagination it looks like java island,..actually i think there's many kind of this weapon relic in online marketplace here,mostly the seller said it was found inside the river,but didn't know is it real or fake,..btw,how do you got yours?

 

Mine wasn't found in a river, but came from a Dutch-Indonesian (Indo) family. Treasured for generations, but the present generation lost interest in 'that old stuff'.

Btw, I don't know about kujang, but if a keris is found in a river, the owner wanted to get rid of it because he or she thought it brought bad luck.

 

have you appraise your kujang value or its history?i thought you have cool collection,congrats