Illustrated on this sketch for a theater set design for Keris (2007) directed by National Laureate Datuk Syed Alwi Syed Hassan is a jawi script that reads Bakaba ( بكب ), which means storytelling or the Minangkabau oral literary performance. In the context of Keris, which tells a fictional tale of a village head named Waling Amri who finds a mystical rock and crafts it into a keris that is then transformed into his daughter’s alter ego, Keris is a folklore story of traditional values and supernatural being.