34470 Catalog Card
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| Title | 34470 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippine Islands | Locality: | People: Moro? Stock. | Name: "Barong" and sheath. Flat, thick, wide, single edged, oval blade .upper end of handle of ivory one long endcarved. Lower half of handle, wide silver band. Flat wooden sheath. over | Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34470 / 1-2 | Acc. 980 |[ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] Fighting knife of exceptional beauty. The possession of such a weapon marks the owner as a man of wealth and importance in the community. Each knife is the work of a native smith whose conveniences for working steel are of the simpliest [sic] but the blades heproduces are highly tempered. Silver coins furnish the metal from which the ferrules are made, while the hilts are of polished ivory secured from Borneo. | |
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| Summary | 34470 Catalog Card, [0.143 MB], (application/pdf) |
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