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the base of the shaft and aid in strengthening the tang end. The 

 shaft is further ornamented by a tassel composed of fringed and 

 braided red cotton cloth. 



Length of blade from point to shaft, 39.4 centimeters (15.5 inches). 

 Collected by Mrs. James F. Courts. (PI. 6, No. 9.) Cat. No. 

 292419, U.S.N.M. 



Lance^ Moro^ Mindanao. — Serpentine steel lance blade having five 

 wavy crests. The blade resembles the kris dagger of the Moro 

 and seems to be a late adaptation in the form of a lance as most of 

 the Malay spears and lances for war and ceremonial purposes are 

 straight edged. The neck is formed by constricting the lateral 

 edges and expanding the median ridge into a ferrule socket into 

 which the bamboo shaft is inserted. The shaft is ferruled with a 

 band of brass 7.7 centimers (3 inches) long. There is a wooden 

 bifurcate sheath for the blade composed of two hollowed slabs of 

 a dipterocarp wood. The slabs are not glued together but are 

 joined by banded splints of rattan at each end and at the center. 

 The sheath is octagonal at the base. 



Length of blade from point to point of insertion of tang in shaft, 

 31 centimeters (12.2 inches). Collected by Dr. Robert B. Grubbs. 

 (PI. 5, No. 4.) Cat. No. 3503, U.S.N.M. 



Spear^ Bagoho^ Davao Province^ Mindanao. — The spear is well 

 made in the characteristic Bagobo style of weapon manufacture. 

 Blade is of steel, has an acute point, median ridge paralleled with 

 filleted grooves to their point of juncture 10.7 centimeters (4.2 inches) 

 from the point. The truncated neck is formed by constricting the 

 lateral cutting edges and expanding the median ridge into a cir- 

 cular ferrule into which the wood shaft is inserted. The socket is 

 funnel shape, expanding toward the shaft. It is formed of a hard- 

 wood, falmn hrava., and is wrapped with a continuous brass wire 

 of 0.3 centimeter diameter for a distance of 20.9 centimeters (8.2 

 inches) from the brass ferrule. Both the ferrule, which is 7 centi- 

 meters (2.7 inches) in length, and the brass-wire wrapping are 

 ornamented with a pattern of punched figures. The blade sheath 

 IS formed of bifurcate slabs of wood covered with a paste-blackened 

 cloth and banded splints of rattan. 



Length of blade from point to shaft, 34,4 centimeters (13.5 

 inches). (PI. 6, No. 7.) Collected by Misses E. H. and S. S. 

 Metcalf. 



Spear, Bagoho, Davao Province, Mindanao. — The blade and shaft 

 are similar to that just described. The special skill and tribal char- 

 acteristic of the Bagobo spears lie not in multiple forms of blades 

 but in the variation accomplished in the ornamentation of the shaft. 

 The ferrule is formed of highly ornamented brass, grooved and 

 filleted, with filigree designs in rickrack and ogee curved figures 



