34633 Catalog Card
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| Title | 34633 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 Archipelago. | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Barong and sheath. Elliptical blade. Part of handle silver coveredand cordage braided and coated, upper end of handle of carved ivory. 59 cm. long. Sheath of 2 flat pieces of wood ends carved. Sheath bound with narrow strips of rattan. over.| Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34633 / 1-2 | Neg. Alb. p.434 | 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. [1 photograph] | |
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| Summary | 434 - 34633 Catalog Card, [0.148 MB], (application/pdf) |
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