FMNH 129781.1,.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: Philippine Islands. | Locality: South Central Mindanao. | People: (Manobo.) Kulaman | Name: Sundang:- Man's fighting knife and sheath. Same type of blade as 129780. Small ["hilt" crossed out] guard is of brass nicely incised. Wooden hilt. Wooden sheath is partly painted black. Top | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909-1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: [continued from Name] wrapped with cloth and hemp braid. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: [Philippine peso symbol] 2.00 / | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129781 / 1-2 | ENT | (1540) | Neg. Alb. p.471 | Acc. 1139 ["1115" crossed out with x's] | L | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 129781.1,.2
Description: knife and sheath for knife
Materials: metal, wood, metal; brass, paint, hemp
Cultural Attribution: Kulaman (Manobo)
Accession Number: [1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1911
Other Numbers: 1540
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: 1030684
GUID: f96ceaf1-87ae-4a3b-8ab4-2f9d93f95367

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