129271 Catalog Card

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Title 129271 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-33 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People: Bagobo. Stock. | Name: Kápor :- Wooden bird used as a decoy. These birds are used as a line whenhunting with a net (see 129270) The hunter often builds a blind in a tree places these decoys near to him and then shoots | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: the birds with bow and arrow or blow gun. The decoyrepresents a wild pigeon-kápor-. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?.40 | (over) | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129271 | ENT | (1119) | NEG.ALB.P.466 | 1139 | Acc. [1115 was crossed out] | [Cursive capital L] | [BACK] A wooden peg, which fits into the body of the bird, has a cord attached and with this the decoy is fastened to the limbs of trees etc. [1 photograph] |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 129271 | 1119 - 129271 Catalog Card, [0.321 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Etta E. McKenna : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
  • Rachel B. Blake : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Anthropology