34632 Catalog Card
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| Title | 34632 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippines | Locality: ["Mindanao Isld." crossed out] Sulu Archip. | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Barong and sheath. Elliptical blade. Single edge, thick back. Silver andbrass covered handle. End of handle, ornamental carved ivory, with shards of carabao horn. Sheather of 2 flat pieces of wood, bound with. over.| Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: [continued from Name] split rattan. Length of barong 63 cm. | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34632 / 1-2 | Acc. 1000 |[ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] Fighting knife of exceptional beauty. The possession of such a weapon marks the owner is 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 | 34632 Catalog Card, [0.152 MB], (application/pdf) |
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