FMNH 129509.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] 34-40 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: South Central Mindanao. | People: Bila=an. Stock. | Name: Agás :- Hunting spear. Head shows where steel edge is joined to iron body. Small brass ferrule below which is coil of incised brass wire and a rattan wrapping. Long wooden shaft, no shoe. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: All spears used by this tribe are probably secured in trade. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?3.00.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129509 | ENT | (1839) | 1139 | Acc. [1115 was crossed out] | [Cursive capital L] | [BACK] |
Catalog Number: 129509.nosub[1]
Description: spear
Materials: wood, metal; steel, metal; brass, rattan
Cultural Attribution: Blaan
Accession Number: [1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1911
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: 1031073
GUID: 7007239b-d3d5-4580-a53e-9eae64f75dc4

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