129030 Catalog Card

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Title 129030 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. Stock. | Name: BEdde :- Woman's brass arm rings with incised designs. The rings are of differentsizes and are so placed on the forearm as to give an hour glass form to the ornament. As a [male?] only one arm is thus decorated. (over) | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: See notes on manufacture of brass bracelets.Also no | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?4.00.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129030 | 1-47 | ENT | (1089) | On figure | 1139 | Acc. [1115 crossed out] | [Cursive capital L.] | [BACK] forearm ornaments worn by women. Brass or copper rings of different sizes are so arranged that when placed on the arm they from an ornament similar in shape to the hourglass. The rings are often covered with incised designs and are then known as dalide: plain ringsare called lunas. |
Subjects
  • Philippines Heritage
Summary 129030 Catalog Card, [0.406 MB], (application/pdf)
Creator(s)
  • Dustin Weddle : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
  • Rachel B. Blake : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Anthropology