Abstract
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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