128670 Catalog Card
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| Title | 128670 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-36 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Betaan, Luzon. | People: Negrito. Stock. | Name: Bosog :- Long bow made of palma brava and fitted with a bowstring made of bark. Threearrows. The arrow with detachable head is called s?bat, the one with spear shaped head bElag. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Used in hunting pigs, deer, monkeys etc. Bow is also called ba-? | Width: | Length: |Height: | Price: ?3.00 | (over) |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 128670 | 1-34 | ENT | (745) | Acc. 1115 | [BACK] The back cords are soft and pliable. Arrow shafts of straight mountain came with a variety of iron points. Shaft feathered with feathers of hawks and other large birds. Three feathers are placed about the arrow and securely wrapped at each end with a thin strip ofrattan or grass. When animal is struck shaft with detachable barbed head, the point leaves its shaft unwinding a (ovil?) which attaches it to the red. Shaft catch in bush, but will not tear out of flesh. Women never touch the weapons. Used also to shoot fish in clear pools.| |
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| Summary | 128670 | 745 - 128670 Catalog Card, [0.37 MB], (application/pdf) |
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