38979 Catalog Card

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Title 38979 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippine Islands | People: Moro. [3 illedgible words, faintly written]. | Locality: Mindanao. | Name: Knife: (Tabas) ["(Tavas) [sic] written faintly above] long broad curvedblade. long handle. partly wrapped with rattan. 37 1/4" long. over. | Collection: Major Ralph S. Porter. Surgeon U.s. Vol. | Where Placed: | Notes: Used in battle. Executioner's knife [faintly written]. |[LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | No 38979 | 59 | NEG.ALB.P.469 | Acc. 776 |[ILLUSTRATION] [1 hand-drawing] |[BACK] Executioners use these heavy two-handed knives for beheading condemned criminals. | [1 photograph] |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 38979 | 776 - 38979 Catalog Card, [0.149 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
  • Trinity Medellin : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology