FMNH 128106.nosub[3]

  • 128106 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view without scale
  • 128106.1 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Reverse view without scale
  • 128106.1 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view without scale
  • 128106.2 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Reverse view without scale
  • 128106.2 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view without scale
  • 128106.3 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view without scale
  • 128106 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view
  • 128106.1 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Reverse view
  • 128106.1 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view
  • 128106.2 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Reverse view
  • 128106.2 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view
  • 128106.3 comb
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Top view
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    Creator: Cassie Pontone : Field Museum of Natural History
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-49 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: North Central Mindanao. | People: Bukidnon. | Name: Soat- Woman's double comb. Made of wood with incised designs. Decorated with beads, red fringe, and tassels. Attached to it is a head ornament of red cloth, richly embroidered, called sablayan. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition, 1909-1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: The sablayan covers the head back of the comb and falls to the neck. (over) | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: [Philippine peso symbol] 2.00 / and T | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 128106 | ENT | (74) | Acc. 1115 | L | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] The woman combs her hair so as to leave a k ot [sic] at the back of the head. In this she wears a comb which is usually deocrated [sic] with beads, fringe, and tassels. It is also customary to attach a piece of embroidered cloth so that it folds over the back and sides of the knot of hair. |
Catalog Number: 128106.nosub[3]
Description: comb
Materials: wood, beads, string, rickrack, cloth, tassel
Cultural Attribution: Bukidnon
Accession Number: [1115] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Bukidon, Mandaya, Manobo, Negrito, and Bataan Bagobo Indians (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1910
Other Numbers: 74
Collector/Source: Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Bukidnon, Mandaya, Manobo, Negrito, and Bataan Bagobo Indians, Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
EMu IRN: 1029649
GUID: 78def4c9-7bd0-4fcd-b316-1e45a5001717

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