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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 211693, member: 2844"]Bev, I think it is just a comb-shaped decoration, very likely to be a stylised rooster head. They love their chickens in southeast Asia.</p><p>If Moro tradition is anything like in Indonesia, the holes could also serve to attach strings of flowers if the keris was worn by a groom at his wedding.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 211693, member: 2844"]Bev, I think it is just a comb-shaped decoration, very likely to be a stylised rooster head. They love their chickens in southeast Asia. If Moro tradition is anything like in Indonesia, the holes could also serve to attach strings of flowers if the keris was worn by a groom at his wedding.[/QUOTE]
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