129302 Catalog Card
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| Title | 129302 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 Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People Bagobo. | Stock. | Name Brass casters outfit. Forge. Bells, bracelets etc in all stages of construction.See notes under ìIndustriesî also under ìCeremoniesî over | Collection R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes | Width | Length | Height | Price ₱ 2.50 |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 129302 | ENT | (1095) | Acc. 1139 |[BACK] Certain men of the tribe expert workers in co[[er and brass, and with primitive outfits such as this turn out excellent bells, bracelets, betel-but boxes, and the like. The making of bells is here illustrated. Taking a bit of wax the size of a buckshot, the smithmoulds the form of a bell over it in damp rice-strew ashes. This he dipts into m elted wax and having smoothed it cuts out an opening at the bottom. Decoration is then added by cutting shallow grooves in the sides of the bell and laying into these thin strips of wax.Withdrawing the stick, the smith inserts in its place a wax cord, which doubles on itself to form the x handle of the bell. Several forms are made in this way and x after being allowed to harden in the sun are laid in a bed of damp ashes, in the center of which is a wax coreto each bell, then the whole is covered with ashes and allowed to harden. Pieces of copper placed in the crucible are melted and poured in the open end of the clay form and the molten metal melts the wax and take its place. When the form is opened it reveals the bells readyfor use as soon as the ashes are removed from them. | |
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| Summary | 1095 - 129302 Catalog Card, [0.359 MB], (application/pdf) |
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