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Suteja Neka

Founder and Director Neka Art

Museum Ubud - Bali

The Neka Art Museum was

opened in 1982 and is

named after a Balinese

teacher Suteja Neka who

collected paintings as a

means of artistic

documentation. Nowadays

the museum has a great

selection of works from many

famous Balinese artists and

expats who have lived here

and influenced local artists.

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Tumpek Landep is a special day for Balinese Hindus, when offerings are presented to metal tools and iron

objects, particularly to sharp weapons.

On this day, Balinese Hindus remove their family krises (heirloom knives) from their shrines and wash them with a mixture of

holy water and fragrant perfume before adorning them with fresh coconut leaves and flowers. The family then presents

offerings in front of the heirloom before partaking in a joint prayer. The ceremony usually takes place at the family shrine.

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UNESCO has fortified Indonesian keris (a wavy-bladed ceremonial dagger), including Balinese

keris, as a masterpiece of cultural heritage that belongs to the world, that must be preserved (Oral and

Intangible Heritage of Humanity).

“The world has admitted the existence of Indonesian keris and gives international appreciation. That

encourages us to collect hundreds of inherited keris,” said Pande Wayan Suteja, the founder and

manager of Neka Museum at Artist Village Ubud,

Neka Art Museum in Ubud

established for more than 25

years is probably the best

place in Bali to see

contemporary and recent

Balinese art.

In 2007 a new permanent

display of keris was opened at

this museum. This display of

keris is the best collection of

contemporary keris art I have

seen. Anybody who has any

doubts about the vitality of

modern keris art and its place

in Indonesian culture only

need visit this wonderful

museum collection to have

any doubts dispelled.

(http://www.kerisattosanaji.co

m/index.html)

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The kris blade is never pulled out horizontally. Hold

the handle with the left hand, raise the scabbard

vertically and pull the scabbard from the blade with

the right hand to show respect. Kris blades can

only be made by men of the Pande caste, who

understand the alchemy of metals.

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The blade is made of layers of iron and nickel which is

heated, folded together and then beaten to create unique

patterns. The wavy blade of the kris may have between 3

and 35 curves, always an odd number, and represents a

serpent at rest. The curved kris blade was designed to

do maximum physical damage during warfare.

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To check whether the energy of a kris is

appropriate for a new owner, the man measures

four finger widths along the blade; in a perfect

match, there will be no space left over.

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Founder of Neka Art Museum, Pande Wayan Suteja

Neka poses with the Keris Bali Bersejarah, a

perennial book on Balinese historical krises he co-

authored with Basuki Teguh Yuwono.

Keris Bali Bersejarah, at 321 pages, is a visual tour

de force and revealing narrative on every

conceivable aspect of Balinese krises. The book is

the clearest symbol of Neka‟s acceptance of his new

role as guardian of a sacred tradition. It took Neka

and another kris aficionado, Basuki Teguh

Yuwono, almost three years to write the book.

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Whether created by human

hands or of supernatural

origin, keris are believed to be

physical manifestations of

invisible forces. Forged in fire

but symbolic of water, a keris

represents a powerful union of

cosmic complementary forces.

A distinctive feature of many

keris is their odd-numbers of

curves, but they also have

straight blades. Keris are like

naga, which are associated with

irrigation

canals, rivers, springs, wells, sp

outs, waterfalls and rainbows.

Some keris have a naga or

serpent head carved near its

base with the body and tail

following the curves of the

blade to the tip. A wavy keris is

a naga in motion, aggressive

and alive; a straight blade is

one at rest, its power dormant

but ready to come into action.

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Blawong

The blawong or blawongan is a wall plaque

that is used to display akeris upon a wall. It is

usually carved with abstract floral designs, or

withwayang or other figures. The keris that is

usually kept in a blawongan is onewith some

talismanic attribute.

Antique blawong of village style showing a wayang

character, possibly Arjuna (Tosanaji Keris collection)

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The stand is called ploncon, they are the

traditional form of keris stand used to both

store and exhibit keris. They have a dragon

at each end supporting a cross bar with holes

in it to accept the keris. (Tosanaji Keris

collection)

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A village style blawong showing a wayang

character, Petruk (Tosanaji Keris collection) and a

blawong showing a barong mask

Suteja Neka ritually hammers a new keris being made

for the Pura Pande blacksmith clan temple in Peliatan

in June 2006

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Tumpek Landep

is the day when

Balinese prays to

the God of

Heirlooms as

symbol asking for

a sharper mind, in

accordance to

spirituality and

mentality.

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This holyday is devoted to Sang Hyang Pasupati, the God of Heirlooms. On this day

Balinese symbolically put the offerings and the prays for metallic equipment, such as

machinery, vehicles, kitchen equipment, and others, on a ceremony that takes place

inside the house, home yard, and temple.

Weapons, such as traditional

krisses, guns, spears, and others, and

metallic equipment are symbolically

worshiped in order that it will bring safety

and fortune to the owner and the user.

Tumpek Landep is basically held to

sharpen mind, to be implemented to do

goodness, because Balinese believe that

the highest level and the greatest weapon

of human being is their mind, which can

bring someone to a better life. And by

sharpen the mind, Balinese hopes that it

will brings more intelligence, to face and

overcome the enemy from inside human‟s

body, such as poverty, stupidity, and many

problems in life.

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In Bali, an heirloom keris and other such metal objects are

presented offerings every 210 days on the day called

Tumpek Landep, which means „sharp‟. They are cleaned,

displayed in temple shrines, and presented with incense,

holy water, and red-colored food and flowers to honor Hindu

god of fire Brahma. This is followed by prayers for a sharp

mind to Sanghyang Pasupati, the deity who empowers

sacred objects and defeats ignorance.

The keris is an important family possession

and considered to be an ancestral deity, as

weapons often play critical roles in the rise

and fall of families and fortunes in history.

Heirloom keris have proper names which

describe their power: Ki Sudamala is

Venerable Exorcist and repels negative

forces, Ki Baju Rante is Venerable Coat of

Armor and spiritually protects one wearing it.

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Text & pictures: Tosanaji Keris & Internet

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