FMNH 129184.nosub[1]

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    Transcriber: Rachel B. Blake : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Anthropology
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-41 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People: Bagobo. Stock. | Name: L?as :- Wild chicken snare and carrying case (l?bban) The snare consists of a number of rattan slip nooses which are attached to a plaited band. These are held upright by means of | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: wooden pegs. The snare is placed so as to form a hollow square or circle (over) | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?.45 | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129184 | ENT | (1056) | NEG.ALB.P.467 | 1139 | Acc. [1115 was crossed out] | [Cursive capital L] | [BACK] within which a tame rooster is placed. The snares are set in the jungles and the crowing of the tame fowl attracts the wild birds who come to fight. During the maneuvers of the fight the wild bird becomes entangled in the slip nooses and is captured. [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 129184.nosub[1]
Description: chicken snare
Materials: rattan, wood
Cultural Attribution: Bagobo
Accession Number: [1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1911
District/County: Davao Prov.
City/Town: Davao Gulf
Collector/Source: Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya, Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
EMu IRN: 1030648
GUID: 4d54f620-0e23-494d-ae76-41d92bfd925e

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