PRIMITIVE WEAPONS AND ARMOR OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 5 



A collection made by Gen. Jacob Kline, United States Army, 

 was presented to the National Museum by his daughters, Mrs. 

 Thomas F. Dwyer and Miss Cathleen Cassel Kline, in 1920. The 

 collection is designed to repi-esent the arts and industries of the 

 Philippine people and has a representative weapon section em- 

 bracing bows and arrows, spears, blowguns, a spring gun of bam- 

 boo, cross boAv, chopping and cutting knives and blades, krisses, and 

 daggers. 



A recent Museum accession is u collection from Miss Isobel H. 

 Lenman, acquired in 1921, comprising Kalinga and Igorot spears, 

 head axes, and Moro krisses and daggers. Another recent acces- 

 sion is a collection from Arthur R. Fergusson, presented in 1922. 

 In this collection from the islands of Cebu and Samar the influ- 

 ence of Hindu design is seen on a brass pike head and on a v^^oman's 

 knife and sheath. European influence may be noted on a sword 

 having a brass guard with double curve fastened as on a common 

 saber. Swords from tlue southern islands have inlaid animal-head 

 carvings on wooden handle in Javanese style, others have handle 

 covered with braided rattan. Short swords from the island of 

 Negros, Visayan Islands, have sword handles inset with embossed 

 silver, others have handles sheathed with silver repousse; kam- 

 pilans are ornamented with tufts of hair and with massive wooden 

 guard. The pronged Igorot shields in the collection are carved and 

 ornamented with black painted designs, while the Kalinga and Moro 

 wooden shields are edged with tufts of human hair and are orna- 

 mented with carved surface patterns inlaid with lime. 



The collection of Col. George C. Shaw, United States Army, was 

 presented in 1922. The collection is noteworthy in that it was accu- 

 mulated during the punitive expedition under Capt. J. J. Pershing 

 against Lake Lanao Moros in Mindanao in 1903. Included are 

 some Moro war gongs, 23 inches in diameter, of hammered brass 

 with hemispherical boss and painted star design in center. Moro 

 spears from the Lake Lanao region have leaf-shaped blades and 

 shafts overlaid with bands of brass, braided rattan, or iron. Moro 

 krisses, kampilans, barongs, and parangs of various descriptions 

 are included. Other weapons in the collection are barongs with 

 Avooden scabbards, beheading knives of various descriptions, head 

 axes from northern Luzon, and other miscellaneous war parapher- 

 nalia. 



Another collection of Filipino weapons was presented to the Mu- 

 seum by Capt. W. C. Warmsley, assistant surgeon, LTnited States 

 Volunteers. The collection was acquired while Captain Warmsley 

 was on duty in the Philippines and includes a good assortment of 

 Moro blades and daggers, shields of various descriptions, and bows, 

 arrows, and quivers from the tribes of northern Luzon. 



