Sword and scabbard

Museum number:

10-661a,b

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Accession number:

Acc.494

Description:

a) Long slender single edged sword; curved steel cross gip turns to hand-guard ending in mouth of carved horn animal-head pommel b) 2 piece wood scabbard covered with yellow cotton cloth; red, tinsel fringe at both ends, Blade pitted, 1963.

Donor:

Mrs. R. E. Fisk

Collection place:

Philippines

Culture or time period:

Mindanao and Visayan

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carvings (visual works) and Scabbards

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1915

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)