128788 Catalog Card

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Title 128788 Catalog Card
Description scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-46 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People: Bagobo. | Name: Tangkolo:- A chocolate colored headband in which are peculiar white patterns. (See 128786 for methodof dyeing). White beads border the edges while at the corners are tassels of beads and red, blue, yellow, and green thread. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Such clothes are worn as head-dresses by the Magani.(over). | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: [Philippine Peso symbol] 3.00 |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 128788 | ENT | (1355) | Acc. 1139 [1115 crossed out with x’s] | L. |[ILLUSTRATION] |[ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] |[BACK] This term is applied to a man when he has killed two or more of his enemies. He is then entitled to wear this badge of honor. When his score reaches four he may wear blood red trousers, and when it mounts to six he can wear a blood red suit and carry a sack of thesame color. Should one not entitled to these garnments dare to wear them, the spirit will cause his speedy death. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 1355 - 128788 Catalog Card, [0.417 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Dustin Weddle : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections