Language: Malay / English
Source: Period accounts
Description
Padri geweer, or "Padri gun" is the name used for a Malay matchlock musket.1
The local name was satingar. 2
Main article: satingar.
Notes
1. Louis Constant Westenenk; Het Padri-geweer. Weekblad voor Indië. Nummer 18, 5de jaargang. Page 884-885.
2. John Crawford; A descriptive dictionary of the Indian Islands & adjacent countries. Bradbury and Evans, Printers and Whitefriars, London, 1856. Page 23.
In period sources
"Het Maleise vuurwapen was het nu nog slechts zeer weinig voorkomende lontgeweer, dat wij Padri-geweer, en de Minangkabauers satengga, sitingga of sitongga noemen, en waarvan een afbeelding hierbij staat." 1
My translation:
"The Malay firearm was the now very scarcely encountered matchlock musket, which we call Padri-gun, and the Minangkabauers call satengga, sitingga or sitongga, and of which there is an image here.
-Louis Constant Westenenk, 1908
The gun referred to in Westenenk's article.
"The name of the matchlock is satingar, a corruption of the Portuguese espingardão, and the fire-lock is called sânapang, a corruption of the Dutch snappaan." ... "The names for gunpowder itself are a little singular. In Malay it is called ubat-bâdil, which literally means "missile-charm:" in Javanese it is ubat, or "charm" alone." 2
-John Crawford, 1856
An unusual short "padri gun".
Mandarin Mansion stock 2021.
Notes
1. Louis Constant Westenenk; Het Padri-geweer. Weekblad voor Indië. Nummer 18, 5de jaargang. Page 884-885.
2. John Crawford; A descriptive dictionary of the Indian Islands & adjacent countries. Bradbury and Evans, Printers and Whitefriars, London, 1856. Page 23.
Further reading
Article: The Padri gun by Westenenk
