129339 Catalog Card

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Title 129339 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card [FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum subject code written in red] 34-51 | Country Philippine Islands. | Locality Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People Bagobo. | Stock. | Name ?dek :- Rice planter. Similar to 129336 (over) | Collection R.F. CummingsPhilippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes | Width | Length | Height | Price ₱ .80 |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 129339 | ENT | (1049) | Acc. 1139 | [Cursive capital L.] |[BACK] A metal blade is attached to one end of the shaft and a bamboo clapper to the other. when the man strikes the instrument on the ground it digs a shallow hole, into which the seed rice is dropped, meanwhile the clapper keeps up a continual racket. It is said by somethat the rattle is intended to please the guarding spirit of the fields, but this does not seem to be the prevalent idea. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 129339 | 1049 - 129339 Catalog Card, [0.275 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Etta E. McKenna : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
  • Aislinn Sanders : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Anthropology