34525 Catalog Card
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| Title | 34525 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippine Islands | Locality: Sulu | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Sword of steel 58 cm. long with wooden sheath 50 cm. long. The hilt is of polished and carved hard wood cappedby a silver ferule [sic] and bound with [2 illegible words]. Sheath also is carved and is bound with fiber cords. Native name is barong. | Collection: R. F. Cummings. Dr A. E. Jenks, Coll. | Notes: Could be secured [4 illegible words] of the [2 illegible words]. | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 34525 | 1-2 | NEG.ALB.P.477 | 125 | Acc. 989 |[BACK] The weapons are generally used in close combat. They are made on the plan of butchers' cleavers with thick back and thin razor-like edges. This gives the weapons weight and balance and skillful warriors can inflict fearful injurty with them. | [1 photograph] | |
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| Summary | 34525 | 989 - 34525 Catalog Card, [0.156 MB], (application/pdf) |
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