90954 Catalog Card
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| Title | 90954 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-53 | Country: Luzon Island, P.I. | Locality: Banawi. Nueva Vizcaya Prov. | People: Ifugao. Igorot. Stock. | Name: Knife 51.5cm long. Broad iron blade slightly curved edge, straight back. Handlewrapped with rough plaited split bamboo. Sheath, single piece of hard dark wood. Side slightly curved. Narrow cross piece for blade bound with bamboo. Plaited bamboo belt. (over). | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition, (S.C. Simms, Collector, 1906). | Notes: | Price: ₱2.50[LEFT MARGIN] A | 90954 / 1-2 | ENT | Neg. Alb. p.372 | 402 | Acc. 1004 |[ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] Unlike most of his neighbors, the Ifugao does not make use of the head-axe. In its place he carries a broad-bladed knife attached to a wooden sheath. About the house and in the fields this knife is a handy tool, but when the ownder is on a raid or is attached itbecomes his most trusted weapon. [1 photograph] | |
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| Summary | 402 | 372 - 90954 Catalog Card, [0.352 MB], (application/pdf) |
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