FMNH 129085.nosub[1]

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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-17 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People: Bagobo. Stock. | Name: Tágan :- Bamboo lime holder. Made of a bamboo tube in sides of which are cut and incised designs. Used to contain the lime used when chewing betel nut. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Usually carried in the kabri-bag. | Width: | Length: 15 3/4" | Height: | Price: ₱ .06 | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129085 | ENT | (1031) | 1139 | Acc. [1115 was crossed out] | [Cursive capital L] | [BACK] |
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Catalog Number: 129085.nosub[1]
Description: lime holder
Materials: bamboo
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: 1030528
GUID: b60cfbc8-4b1b-45a4-80f7-d936171101b8

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