Mandau

mandau sharp weapon of a kind machete comes from dayaks culture at borneo.
mandau belong one of [the] indonesia tradisional weapon differ from charcoal mandau has carving - carving at the lath part not sharp. often also met holes addition at the lath that closed with brass or copper for the purpose of beautify lath mandau.

Kupang
kumpang lath cover mandau. kumpang made from wood and usually decorated with carving.
in kumpang bound also a kind of made pocket from knife full bark penyerut and tusk wood that believed can averse beast.
mandau that sheathed in kumpang usually fastened at waist with rattan tissue.

basic commodity and price
follow literature at museum balanga, palangkaraya, basic commodity mandau iron (sanaman) mantikei found upriver river matikei, village fall down atei, district sanaman matikei, samba, kotawaringin east.
this iron has bent so that easy is bent.
mandau original the price is begun from rp. 1 million rupiah. mandau original old aged and has strong iron can achieve price rp. 20 million rupiah per lath.
maker basic commodity mandau usually can also use iron per car, chain saw lath, vehicle disk and stick iron other.
work apparatus that used especially hammer, betel, and sebasang pointed iron to burrows mandau for decoration. also used electricity powerful air blower for blaze ironwood wood waste flame utility to heats iron. ironwood wood is chosen because can to produce hot higher is compared another wood.
mandau to cideramata usually bergagang wood, the price revolves rp. 50.000 up to rp. 300.000 depending from iron that used.
mandau original mempunnyai penyang, penyang dayaks tribe science collections that got from result does or instruction lelulur that used to wage war. penyang will make one who will hold mandau magic, strong and invulnerable in face of enemy. mandau and penyang be one unitary inseparable from ancestor.