6 BULLETIN 137^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Anthony J. Gies, chief inspector of streets and drainage, Manila, 

 brought a large collection of ethnological, historical, and techno- 

 logical objects to the United States in May, 1900, from which a 

 selection was purchased by the Museum for the Pan American 

 Exposition. 



Representative collections of primitive weapons employed by the 

 Negritos of Luzon and of the southern islands were made from time 

 to time by various Army officers and others employed in the Philip- 

 pine service. Such collections were presented to the Museum by 

 E. H. Hammond, Lieut. W. F. H. Godson, John H. Ford, and others. 

 The collection of E. H. Hammond includes several valuable wooden 

 shields such as were employed by the Remontados or mountaineers 

 from the borders of the Provinces of Iloilo, Antique, and Capiz in 

 the Visayan Islands. 



As early as 1904 Capt. Edwin Y. Miller, then governor of the 

 Province of Paragua, Island of Palawan, began collecting type 

 weapons belonging to the pagan hybrid Malay and Negrito Batak 

 of the interior of Palawan. This collection was presented to the 

 Museum in part by Captain Miller himself and in part by his wife, 

 Mrs. Florence G. Miller, in 1923. The collection is the best and mor-t 

 complete unit of Palawan Batak weapons in existence. 



Small but excellent collections from the Moro and other tribes of 

 the southern and the Visayan Islands were presented to the Museum 

 by numerous different individuals. A collection of Samal Moro 

 weapons given to President Theodore Roosevelt was deposited in the 

 Museum by Maj. Archie Butt, United States Army. Collections 

 from the Moro of Sulu Archipelago and from Mindanao were ac- 

 quired through D. W. Oyster, Wilbur J. Carr, Gen. R, D. Potts, 

 United States Army, Capt. T. W. Darrah, United States Army, 

 Lieut. Col. D. W. Hand, Maj. W. T. Johnston, United States Army, 

 James M. Sheridan, D. B. Mackie, Rev. David Barr, Maj. E. L. 

 Hawkes, W. Huse Chapman, J. M. Harkins, Dr. E. R. Hodge, 

 United States Army, of the Army Medical Museum, and Arthur R. 

 Fergusson, who also presented a collection of ancient Visayan blades 

 having grotesquely carved wooden pommel resembling the grotesque 

 human figurine totemic "wyang" carvings on Javanese parang 

 handles. 



Most of the weapon collections in the United States National Mu- 

 seum from the Philippine Islands are recent accessions. They con- 

 tain many individual specimens not represented elsewhere in museum 

 collections. Examples of such are the ancient war clubs which be- 

 long to a culture antedating the iron age in the Philippines; also, 

 the arrow and spear types from the southern islands showing jMela- 

 nesian influence. Individual weapon collections are in part unique 

 in that they portray the design perfected in some one localitv and 



