FMNH 129553.1

  • 129553.1 ear plugs
    Photographer: Alpha Sadcopen : 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] 34-46 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: South Central Mindanao. | People: Bila-an. Stock. | Name: Olel lībon :- Woman's ear plugs. Similar to 129552. Tassels attached. Also shell disks sewed in back of each. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909-1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: [Philippine peso symbol] .80 | [LEFT MARGIN] A | 129553 (1-2) | ENT | (1754) | Acc. 1139 ["1115" crossed out] | L | [ILLUSTRATION] | [ILLUSTRATION NOTATION] | [BACK] |
Catalog Number: 129553.1
Description: ear plug
Materials: wood, cloth, metal; brass, shell
Cultural Attribution: Blaan
Locality: Asia, Philippines, Philippine Islands, Mindanao Island
Accession Number: [1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Bilaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1911
Other Numbers: 1754
Country: Philippines
Province/State: Mindanao Island
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: 3771684
GUID: 0417aa69-825c-42bd-8819-c20b1fb62ea9

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