Identification of the dagger/mini sword which has been in my family for as long as I can remember (and I am 80 years old)

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This would be a straight example of a keris or kris dagger from the region of Indonesia. The typical blade in this form is wavy, but straight ones can be seen on various sites such as this discussion at vikingsword.com.

You can see both straight and wavy ones on this image from Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) The History of Java Volume I.(1817)

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