34638 Catalog Card
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| Title | 34638 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. - Zamboanga Dist. | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Barong and sheath. Elliptical blade. Hard wood handle, lower end has band ofsilver, upper end slightly carved. Sheath of 2 flat pieces of hard dark wood. bound in 2 places with narrow split rattan. Length of barong 50.5 cm. over. | Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34638 / 1-2 | Neg. Alb. p.476 | Acc. 1000 |[ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] Weapons for use in close combat. Each knife is the work of a native smith whose conveniences for working steel are of the simpliest [sic]. Silver coins are furnishing the metal from which the ferrules are made. [1 photograph] | |
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| Summary | 476 - 34638 Catalog Card, [0.136 MB], (application/pdf) |
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