34667 Catalog Card

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Title 34667 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippines | Locality: Mindanao Isld | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Knife & sheath. Narrow diamond-shaped blade. stem of which passes thro [sic].light wooden handle with 2pointed ends. Ornamented with strings of beads with tasselated [sic] ends. One side of wooden sheath covered with bands [reference symbol]. Over. | Collection: E.E. Ayer. | Notes: [reference symbol] of silver. other side with palm leaf. Narrow band of plaited colored threadtasselated [sic] ends. Knife 32.2 cm long. | Price: |[LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 34667 | 1-2 | Acc. 1000 |[BACK] Weapons for use in close combat. Each knife is the work of a native smith whose conveniences for working steel are the simpliest. Silver coins furnish the metal from which the ferrules are made. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 34667 | 1000 - 34667 Catalog Card, [0.16 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
  • Trinity Medellin : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology