FMNH 109141.3

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    Transcriber: Etta E. McKenna : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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    Description: scan of catalog card [FRONT] [MAIN BODY] [ENT ] | Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-28 | Country: Luzon, P.I. | Locality: Namarabar. Patoc | People: Tinguian | Stock. | Name: Barvit. Four wooden tops with nail pegs. Is not open but has cord tied about it. The owner ties to peg or break his opponents top. A top similar to those used in America is used in towns near to Ilocanos. | Collection: R.F. Cummings Expedition, (F.C. Cole, 1907=8). | Notes: This type of top is evidently very old as it figures often in the old folk tales. [LEFT MARGIN] A | 109141 / 1 - 4 | 1 illustration | 1064 | Neg. Vol. p. 474 | Acc. 1060 | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ₱.03 | |BACK| 1 photograph
Catalog Number: 109141.3
Description: top
Materials: wood, metal
Cultural Attribution: Tinguian
Locality: Asia, Philippine Islands, Philippines, Luzon Island, Abra Prov.: Namarabar-Patoc
Accession Number: [1060] Second R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippine Islands - ethnology - Mangyan (Expedition)
Accession Year: 1908
Other Numbers: 1064
Country: Philippines
Province/State: Luzon Island
District/County: Abra Prov.
City/Town: Namarabar-Patoc
Collector/Source: Second R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippine Islands - ethnology - Mangyan, Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
EMu IRN: 4017895
GUID: d39898bc-8b3e-404b-b835-68ab3579dacc

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