The Last Supper

The Kris `An earthly approach to a cosmic symbol

This book is sold out. What is a kris? If you want to answer that question, several points of departure are available to you. To name but a few: the secrets of the kris smith, the ‘proto’kris and its manifold later variants, the position of the kris in Indonesian society, or the krisses in private and public Dutch collections. Practically every kris, whether old or recently aquired, has its own story to tell. Through those […]