FMNH 128322.nosub{2}

  • 128322 banig mat
    Photographer: Mr. John M. Kelly : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: overall view
  • 128322 banig mat
    Photographer: Mr. John M. Kelly : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: fringe detail view
  • 128322 banig mat
    Photographer: Mr. John M. Kelly : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: fringe detail view
  • 128322 banig mat
    Photographer: Mr. John M. Kelly : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: edge detail view
  • 128322 banig mat
    Photographer: Mr. John M. Kelly : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: corner detail view
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    Scanner: Etta E. McKenna : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    Transcriber: Rachel B. Blake : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Anthropology
    (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] 34-29 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: North Central Mindanao. | People: Bukidnon. Stock. | Name: Banig :- Mat of red, yellow, white and purple straw. The designs are in parallel bands, those predominantly yellow being the broadest. Two red corners. Nature dyes. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Mats are used to sleep on, to spread on the floor for guests to sit on, as a table for food (over) | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?2.50.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 128322 | ENT | (406) | Acc. 1115 | [Cursive capital L.] | [BACK] at a ceremony, as a musical instrument (see notes), and to wrap the dead in. |
Catalog Number: 128322.nosub{2}
Description: mat
Materials: straw, dye
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
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: 1029760
GUID: ae56da9f-035e-4437-92b1-429491d0f605

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