Title
Hilt
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Indonesian Archipelago
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: L11 x W4 x H4 cm
Accession No.
1995-02016
Collection of
Keris hilts can be made from a variety of materials from wood, ivory, bone to fossilised mammoth tooth. Hilts are rather like miniature sculptures though designs on them tend to be traditional. With the advent of Islam, the vivid representations of a man or deity evolved and became abstracted into more acceptable forms.
