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Trisular
East Java, Indonesia
17th century
length: 35.5 cm
This trisular or three-pronged spear head is of ‘watered’ or damascened iron. It has a thread at the shaft end for securing it to a lance.
The trisular is the weapon of Shiva but its use continued into the Islamic era, with trisulars such as this forming part of the pusaka of the various Islamic courts
on Java and elsewhere in what is now Indonesia.
Most of the iron ore that was used to make such weapons in Java came not from Java but from rudimentary mines on Sulawesi where the laterite ores
comprised a high proportion of nickel, thus giving Javanese krises and trisulars their characteristic watered or wavy sheen (pamor).
Inventory no.: 309
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Trisular
East Java, Indonesia
17th century
length: 35.5 cm
This trisular or three-pronged spear head is of ‘watered’ or damascened iron. It has a thread at the shaft end for securing it to a lance.
The trisular is the weapon of Shiva but its use continued into the Islamic era, with trisulars such as this forming part of the pusaka of the various Islamic courts
on Java and elsewhere in what is now Indonesia.
Most of the iron ore that was used to make such weapons in Java came not from Java but from rudimentary mines on Sulawesi where the laterite ores
comprised a high proportion of nickel, thus giving Javanese krises and trisulars their characteristic watered or wavy sheen (pamor).
Inventory no.: 309
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