128608 Catalog Card
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| Title | 128608 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-54 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: North Central Mindanao | People: Bukidnon. Stock. | Name: Forge:- Two wooden cylinders which fit into a base [for] which bamboo tubes lead to acharcoal fire. Plungers with ends fitted with feathers are worked up and down in cylinders. Also hammer. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Used by men to make knives etc. (over) | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price:[Philippine peso symbol] 3.00 |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 128608 | ENT | (421) | Neg. Alb. p.463 | Acc. 1155 | L. |[ILLUSTRATION] |[ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] Forges are found in a few Bukidnon villages. They consist of two cylinders hollowed out of logs. As these plungers are alternately raised and lowered the air is forced through bamboo tubes into a bed of charcoal. Knives and crude spearheads are beat out of stoneanvils, by means of stone hammers or occasionally iron ones. | [2 photographs] | |
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| Summary | 421 | 463 - 128608 Catalog Card, [0.346 MB], (application/pdf) |
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