Prince Dipanagara’s Pilgrim’s Staff
An unusual artefact, a staff crowned by an iron disc, which once belonged to prince Dipanagara, leader of the Java War (1825-1830), was recently brought into the open. The aim of this article is to discover its function. A help is a contemporaneous note, recording its use during tirakat (pilgrimage)...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipel, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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Archipel
2019
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | An unusual artefact, a staff crowned by an iron disc, which once belonged to prince Dipanagara, leader of the Java War (1825-1830), was recently brought into the open. The aim of this article is to discover its function. A help is a contemporaneous note, recording its use during tirakat (pilgrimage). Only special walking-sticks (cis) are used during tirakat. However, a cis is never topped by an iron finial. Iron finials are topping state lances (tumbak) in use at the courts in south-central Java. Dipanagara’s staff is a mixture of a cis and a tumbak. Dipanagara attached great importance to protection from the Upper World. Therefore, the many weapons he owned were actually amulets (jimat). For this reason the alleged provenance of the staff from a Sultan of Demak, a ruler of the first Islamic realm of Java, should also be considered. |
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