34488 Catalog Card

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Title 34488 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: Stock. | Name: Knife and scabbard. Long, curved, thick, single edged blade, oblique point. Handle of hard red wood, long, narrow.slightly carved projection at end. Flat, wide curved two piece scabbard. over. | Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34488 / 1-2 | Acc. 982 |[ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] These scimiter-like knives, with blades widening from the handle to a slanting point are used solely as weapons. They are kept in light wooden sheathes [sic] through which the blades will easily pass if time does not permit of drawing the blades.|
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 34488 Catalog Card, [0.132 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology