FMNH 34659.1,.2

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    Transcriber: Trinity Medellin : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Columbian Museum. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-60 | Country: Philippines | Locality: Mindanao Isld | People: Moro. Stock. | Name: Sword & sheath. Scimitar-like blade. Handle of carabao horn, lower end bound with silver band. Long narrow slightly curved projection at one end. Sheath of 2 flat pieces of wood, bound with rattan. Over. | Collection: E.E. Ayer. | Notes: 78 cm long. | Price: | [LEFT MARGIN] A | ENT | 34659 | 1-2 | NEG.ALB.P.434 | Acc. 1000 | [BACK] These scimitar-like knives, with blades widening from the handle to a slanting point, are used solely as weapons. They are kept in light wooden sheaths through which the blades will easily pass if time does not permit of drawing the blades. | [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 34659.1,.2
Description: sword and sheath for sword
Materials: horn; water buffalo - carabao, metal, metal; silver, wood, rattan
Cultural Attribution: Moro
Accession Number: [1000] 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: 1261270
GUID: 1f42d55e-5340-4ede-a0f8-9f54063fea2b

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