34645 Catalog Card

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Title 34645 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. | People: Moro. | Stock. | Name: Barong & sheath. Long narrow eilliptical blade. Hard wood handle, lower partbound with wide band of silver engraved ornamentation, ends of upper part slightly curved Sheath of 2 flat pieces of hard wood, 4 groups of rattan binding. | Collection: E.E. Ayer. | Notes: Length of barong 64.5 cm. | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 34645 | 1-2 | 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. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
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Creator(s)
  • Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology