FMNH 34489.1,.2

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    Scanner: Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | ENT | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: | People: Lauao Moro. | Stock. | Name: "Kampilan" & Scabbard. Long single edged blade, widdening to slanting point. Bent wire guard.Long wooden handle grasp board with plaied split rattan. End of handle curved, ornamental with tufts of... | Collection: E.E. Ayer | Notes: ...Red hair. Strips of red cotton attached. Plain wooden scabbard with cartridge shell attached to end. | Price: | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 34489 | 1-2 | Acc. 982 | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] | A two handed cutting knife used in war. The sheath is made of light wood held together with thin rattan bands. In an emergency a blow can be struck without drawing the knife; the force of the blow freeing the knife from its covering. |
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    Scanner: Oscar Docto : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: Scan of exhibit label from past exhibition, "Ethnology of Philippines (Islands) Exhibition Hall H". Grouped by cultural attribution "Moro"
Catalog Number: 34489.1,.2
Description: dagger and sheath for dagger
Materials: metal, wood, rattan, hair
Cultural Attribution: Lanao Moro
Accession Number: [982] E. E. Ayer (Gift)
Accession Year: 1906
Collector/Source: Edward E. Ayer : Field Columbian Museum [FCM], Edward E. Ayer : Field Columbian Museum [FCM]
EMu IRN: 1259610
GUID: 491ed72e-a545-4288-b451-0bb3e6d1c15c

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