FMNH 129780.2

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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. The blade is a wavy kris of Moro manufacture. Brass ferrule poorly incised. Wooden hilt. Wooden sheath has two prongs | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909-1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: [continued from Name] at end covered with iron wire. Rattan strips about center. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: [Philippine peso symbol] 2.50 /.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129780 / 1-2 | ENT | (1565) | Neg. Alb. p.471 | Acc. 1139 ["1115" crossed out with x's] | L | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] [1 photograph] |
Catalog Number: 129780.2
Description: sheath for knife
Materials: metal, wood, metal; brass, metal; iron, rattan
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: 1565
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: 1356709
GUID: 5d53a2a7-4af3-4a2c-aae8-10917c5d3467

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