Dagger

Museum number:

10-556a

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm2110000556a

Accession number:

Acc.408

Description:

Gunong inclosed in pointed bamboo receptacle; brass hilt; incised horn handle; 20.25 inches long; case, 22.75 inches long. Are said to have been weapons concealed in this fashion for smuggling into forbidden territory.

Donor:

Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf

Collection place:

Mindanao island group, Philippines

Culture or time period:

Iranon

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1911

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)