FMNH 90073.1,.2

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Luzon Island, P.I. | Locality: Kabayan. Benguet Prov. | People: Igorot. Stock. | Name: Bolo and sheath. Heavy iron blade widening toward end. Short handle of carabao horn. 39.8 cm long. Sheath of darkened light wood of two pieces bound with rattan. 1/2 of one side is cut off. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition. (S.C. Simms, Collector, 1906). | Notes: [continued from Name] so as to [1 illegible word] expand a part of the blade | Price: [Philippine Peso symbol] 2.00 | [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 90073 1/2 | Neg. Alb. p.373 | 969 | Acc. 1004 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 90073.1,.2
Description: knife and sheath for knife
Materials: horn; water buffalo - carabao, metal; iron, wood, rattan
Cultural Attribution: Igorot
Accession Number: [1004] Cummings Philippine Explorations - Luzon, Philippines - ethnology, 1906-1907 (Expedition)
Accession Year:
Other Numbers: 969
District/County: Benguet Prov.
City/Town: Kabayan
Collector/Source: Cummings Philippine Explorations - Luzon, Philippines - ethnology, 1906-1907, Stephen C. Simms : The Field Museum
EMu IRN: 1321447
GUID: 83063923-7751-4a10-8aaa-fa3335cd4591

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