FMNH 129012.1

  • 129012.1 leglets
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: Front view
  • 129012.1 leglets
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Front view
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    Scanner: Dustin Weddle : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology Collections
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-46 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Davao Gulf, Mindanao. | People: Bagobo. Stock. | Name: Rr?b? :- Woman's leglets made of braided wire edged with beads. Cloth back band. Over 100 bells are attached. Worn just above the calf of the leg. (over) | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Used in dances and on special occasions. Bells all of native casting. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?8.00.. | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129012 | 1-2 | ENT | (1184) | 1139 | Acc. [1115 crossed out] | [Cursive capital L] | [BACK] For special occasions some of the women wear elaborate leglets made of vine, and with many bells attached. When a woman dances the bells and other ornaments keep up a continual jingle thus calling attention to the owners. All the bells are of native workmanship. |
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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: 129012.1
Description: leglet
Materials: metal, metal wire, glass beads, cloth
Cultural Attribution: Bagobo
Locality: Asia, Philippine Islands, Philippines, Mindanao Island, Davao Prov.: Davao Gulf
Accession Number: [1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1911
Country: Philippines
Province/State: Mindanao Island
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: 3643623
GUID: 8ec55231-af3b-4619-adc8-6bd5f846be6e

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