PRIMITIVE WEAPONS AND ARMOE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 6 



During his detail as surgeon in the Philippine Islands, Dr. E. A. 

 Mearng, United States Army, took part in punitive expeditions 

 against the IVIoro of Mindanao. While in the field he collected many 

 ethnological specimens and sent them to the Museum as a gift in 

 1904. Circular and oblong parrying shields from Balimbang, Tawi 

 Tawi, and examples of Tinggian and Bagobo knives, axes, spears, 

 and daggers are noteworthy objects of this collection. 



Alonzo H. Stewart, upon leaving for the Philippines, was re- 

 quested to make a collection of Bagobo ethnological objects from 

 Davao, southeast coast of Mindanao. The material collected con- 

 sisting of the weapons and knives eraploj'ed by a Bagobo family 

 'was obtained by the Museum in 1904. 



A large collection of Philippine ethnological material including 

 weapons and armor was received as a gift from the Philippine Com- 

 mission at the close of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 

 Mo., in 1904. This collection was shipped to the American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York City, and from there a portion was 

 forwarded to tlie National Museum in December, 1905. Additional 

 material from the Philippine World's Fair Commission was received 

 direct from St. Louis. The collection includes several Negrito bows; 

 shields and quivers from Ilagan, Isabella Province; compound or 

 trident arrows from the province of Tarlac, Luzon; shields, quivers, 

 and arrows from the Tinggian tribe of northern Luzon; Mangyan 

 bows, blowguns, harpoons, fishing, hunting, and war spears; swords 

 and head axes of the Mindanao Moro; swords and shields of the 

 Bagobo of southeastern Mindanao; war clubs of the Subanun; also 

 man}^ agricultural, industrial, and semiwarlike implements from the 

 Christianized native tribes. The collection is especially rich in metal 

 workers' tools and in technological metal objects. 



In 1908 Capt. G. P. Ahern, United States Army, presented a 

 collection of Philippine weapons to the TTnited States National 

 Museum comj)rising Moro circular hardwood shields; Moro spears 

 and arrows, including a spearhead fashioned after the Chinese style 

 with a ceremonial heavy cast brass dragon encircling the blade; a 

 Visayan sword with grotesque hilt carving patterned after the 

 Javanese conception; bolos with grip and leather scabbard modeled 

 after the European sword but preserving Filipino characteristics as 

 to shape of blade; semicircular Moro beheading knives and Igorot 

 head axes; heavy old Spanish halberds with open-work iron blade in 

 medieval ecclesiastical design, formerly used in the Malacanan 

 Palace in Manila. 



Capt. Jesse R. Harris, United States Army, in 1907, presented to 

 the Museum his collection of Filipino knives and Moro swords, 

 cuirass, and shields. At the time of the Seattle Exposition, Army 



