FMNH 129137.1

  • 129137, 129140 knives and sheaths
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    Description: Sheath for fighting knife
  • 129137, 129135, 129138 knives
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    Description: knife
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    Creator: Theodore Davies : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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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: Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People: Bagobo. | Name: Sinan kabau:- Man's fighting knife with fine grooved blade. Fret work near ferrule. Incised brass ferrule. Wooden handle. Heavy bead tassel attached to ferrule. Wooden sheath has lower part carved with fine | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expeditions, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: [continued from Name] beadwork and tassels and balance of front has a line plate of native brass casting in scroll | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: [Phillippine Peso symbol] 20.00 /.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129137 | ENT | (1365) | Acc. 1139 ["1115" crossed out] | L. | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] [continued from Notes] designs. Two brass end pieces. Beaded belt with tassels attached. An unusually fine piece of native workmanship. Made at the smithy in Bankas. |
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    Scanner: Etta E. McKenna : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: Exhibit label from past exhibition, "Ethnology of Philippines (Islands) Exhibition Hall H". Grouped by cultural attribution "Bagobo"
Catalog Number: 129137.1
Description: knife
Materials: metal, metal; brass, wood, beads, metal, animal hair; horse
Cultural Attribution: Bagobo
Accession Number: [1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1911
Other Numbers: 1365
District/County: Davao Prov.
City/Town: Davao Gulf
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: 3548548
GUID: 1725a774-827b-43b2-a9a2-577ff9062559

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