FMNH 34638.1,.2

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippines | Locality: Mindanao Isld. - Zamboanga Dist. | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Barong and sheath. Elliptical blade. Hard wood handle, lower end has band of silver, upper end slightly carved. Sheath of 2 flat pieces of hard dark wood. bound in 2 places with narrow split rattan. Length of barong 50.5 cm. over. | Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: | Price: | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 34638 / 1-2 | Neg. Alb. p.476 | Acc. 1000 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] Weapons for use in close combat. Each knife is the work of a native smith whose conveniences for working steel are of the simpliest [sic]. Silver coins are furnishing the metal from which the ferrules are made. [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 34638.1,.2
Description: knife and sheath for knife
Materials: metal, wood, metal; silver, rattan
Cultural Attribution: Moro
Accession Number: [1000] E. E. Ayer (Gift)
Accession Year: 1906
Collector/Source: Edward E. Ayer : Field Columbian Museum [FCM], Edward E. Ayer : Field Columbian Museum [FCM]
EMu IRN: 1261153
GUID: e157caea-097d-4352-82ec-c658f139546f

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