Kalis
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A kalis is a type of Philippine sword derived from the wider Southeast Asian, originally Javanese keris, better known as kris. It differs in that the Philippine kris or kalis tends to be a sword, not
Moro kalis nomenclature, given in Tausūg, Maranao, and Maguindanao. This particular sword has a kakatua (cockatoo) pommel.
In this example, the blade's lamination pattern and the darker high-carbon cutting edge of the blade are visible. This harder high-carbon cutting edge is termed as "sinubo" (roughly, "sandwiched").
The demarcation line indicating the separate gangya (guard) can be seen.
Two Filipino swords, a kampilan (longer, with a crocodile pommel) and a kalis (shorter, with a cockatoo pommel), photographed side by side to demonstrate their size relative to each other.
Gunong
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The gunong is a knife from Mindanao and the Visayas islands of the Philippines. In ancient past, it was called bunong by the Tagalog people. It is essentially a diminutive form of the larger kalis or
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…other countries in Mainland Southeast Asia. Both the sword and dagger versions were used in the Philippines, with the dagger version being known as the gunong or gulok (also called punyal, from puñal de kris, "kris dagger"). Unlike the keris, the gunong is more commonly used as a utility knife and only used…
An antique gunong from Mindanao.
T'boli and Mandaya badao daggers with sheaths in the National Museum of Anthropology