2 BULLETIN 137. UNITED STATES NATIONAL. MUSEUM 



In 1901, Gen. J. M. Bell, United States Volunteers, collected a 

 suit of armor, varieties of spears, bows and arrows, shields, bolos, 

 and knives from the Bikol Peninsula, southern Luzon Island. In 

 the same jenr another collection was received from J. M. Harkins 

 consisting of Moro shields, lances and spears, axes, knives, daggers, 

 and swords : also of Negrito and Tagalog weapons and cutting imple- 

 ments employed in agriculture. 



Col. Frank F. Hilder, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, was 

 sent to the Philippine Islands in 1900 for the purpose of making a 

 large collection of ethnological objects for the Pan-American Expo- 

 sition to be held in Buffalo in 1901. This material was received in 

 Washington, prepared and sent to Buffalo, afterwards to the Charles- 

 ton Exposition, and, finally, was turned over by the Government 

 board to the United States National Museum. The collection in- 

 cludes industrial and agricultural cutting tools of iron and steel from 

 the Tagalog of central Luzon, such as knives for cutting and shred- 

 ding Manila hemp " abaca," hat and basket maker's tools from 

 Bulacan Province, coconut buskers and shredders in the form of ani- 

 mal wood carvings with inset metal headpiece, and steel blades for 

 grass " zacate " cutting. A rice reaper or sickle with hook-shaped 

 handle and with steel cutting blade fastened on the under side of 

 the grip is so fashioned that the hook gathers in the rice while the 

 knife cuts it at one operation, thus incorporating in this instrument 

 the essentials of a primitive reaping cradle. 



Among the weapons collected by Hilder are bovv's and arrows from 

 the island of Jolo, such as were used by the Moro; the bows are of 

 bamboo and rattan, have a braided rattan bow cord, and the arrows 

 are of cane with palmwood head. Moro spears with steel blade, long 

 brass ferrule, and hardwood shaft are included together with another 

 type of spear having a steel blade fastened into a wooden socket with 

 adhesive gum and fixed to a bamboo shaft; other spears are of the 

 type of war spear with barbed head employed by the Igorot. In- 

 cluded in the collection is an example of cord armor from the Min- 

 danao Moro together with a typical collection of Moro swords and 

 daggers, also a collection of 90 miniature models of Moro and Taga- 

 log weajjon types. 



Dr. Kobert B. Grubbs, United States Army, in 1903, while as- 

 signed to Philippine duty, collected among the Moro of Iligan, Min- 

 danao, a number of ancient brass helmets of Spanish and Moro native 

 workmanship, also old Spanish and ]Moro coats of mail with brass 

 and horn plates and other weapons of Moro manufacture. Included 

 are kampilans, some made in imitation of damascus steel blades, 

 others inlaid with dragon etchings; krisses from the Lake Lanao re- 

 gion ; beheading swords and headman's axes ; Moro lances, bows and 

 arrows. 



