Sword and scabbard

Museum number:

10-207a,b

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.27 and Acc.9

Description:

a) Kampilan; carved wood pommel; 2 bands plaited rattan on grip; carved wood crossguard; double loop square wire; 41 1/4 inches long. b) two-piece wood scabbard; black at each end.

Donor:

S. A. Cloman

Collection place:

Mindanao Island, Mindanao island group, Philippines

Culture or time period:

Southern Mindanao

Collector:

S. A. Cloman

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Plaited weaving and Scabbards

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

December 16, 1901 and January 1901

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)