DISPUTABLE PHOTOGRAPHS:

At the third page I mentioned that there is not to be found a single photo with a warrior or native carrying a gobang bandung.

As a matter of fact it looks like there is not a photo of a native carrying a gobang bandung. But is that correct? Or do some photos exist but isn’t there a clear photo of one carrying a gobang?

During my research I also had been spending a lot of time browsing hundreds of old photographs, taken in and around the Preanger area.

It was clearly distinguishable that on most photos natives were not carrying any weapons at all on their body already at the end of the 1800s. Probably they did not need to carry them, or more likely were not allowed to carry weapons by the Dutch colonizer at that time.

Only some krisses or other kind of goloks were carried on very scarce images, and then also only by noblemen at a gathering, or just for the sake of making a majestic pose on the photo.

Between the hundreds of old “swordless” images, I did find some very interesting photographs of natives who “could be” carrying a gobang bandung.

Though these photo’s are disputable, I would like to include those at the end of the article, for your own rich imagination……….

Woodbury & Page: Pre 1880; Crater Tjiboehi of the Goenoeng Patoeha near Bandung.

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Woodbury & Page: Pre 1880; Sangiang Tjikoro, between Tjiandoer and Bandung.

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F.W. Junghuhn: appr. 1860; Javanese regent with attendants (of which one has been

enlarged) in front of Junghuhn’s house in Lembang near Bandung.

Probably the principal in the photo is the regent of Bandung, Dalem Toemenggoeng Soeria Karta Adiningrat.

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