34642 Catalog Card

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Title 34642 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: Mindanao Island; Zamboanga Dist. | People: Moro. | Stock. | Name: Barong & sheath. Elliptical blade. Hand-woven handle, lower half boundwith wide band of silver, ends of upper half slightly curved. Sheath of 2 flat pieces of wood, bindings of solid rattan. Length of barong 60 cm. | Collection: E.E. Ayer. | Notes: | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34642 | 1-2 | NEG.ALB.P 434 | 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 simplest. Silver coins furnish the metal from which the ferrules are made. | [1 photograph] |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 34642 | 1000 - 34642 Catalog Card, [0.137 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology