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tlae handle grip. The slope at the truncated distal end is inward from the 

 back to the edge, while in the ihlang the slope extends inward from the edge 

 toward the back. 



PiBAii. — Broad backed deeply concave blade, having a single, convexly curved 

 cutting edge. The blade is usually truncated, forming a long slope from 

 the back to the long, acutely tapered point. The elbow at base of blade is 

 nearer the handle than in the similarly fashioned parang-latok. The 

 handle, fashioned to fit the hand, is of figured wood or horn and is pro- 

 vided with symbolic recurved horns and spike. Southern islands. 



PuNAL-DE-KRis. — A dagger carried by women and children of any social pre- 

 tensions; the blade may be either straight or wavy like a kris; it is 

 usually of good quality of metal and may have blade and handle ham- 

 mered from silver or gold. Moro. 



QxjiNBASi. — A general utility blade of Moro production. Used by the common 

 soldier. 



SuNDANG. — A working bolo ; also a weapon used by the common soldier. As 

 an insignium it places the bearer in the laboring class. An agricultural 

 implement in Luzon and in the Visayas. 



Tabas. — A heavy chopping blade convexly curved at cutting edge and concave 

 at back. The blade broadens to ward the truncated distal end. The long 

 curved handle serves as a counterweight for the long heavy blade. It is 

 usually wrapped with braided rattan. In general effect, the blade resem- 

 bles a scimiter. Moro, Mindanao, and Sulu Archipelago. 



Taliboi^g. — The blade is from 4 to 5 feet in length and gives the bearer con- 

 siderable social distinction. It is used in the advance line of attack and 

 also by the official headsman, who formerly decapitated the wounded upon 

 the field of battle. It is a double-curved sword mounted on a long handle. 

 Has a certain resemblance to the Japanese headsman's sword or ax. 



Terciada. — A kris with straight or slightly curved blade having less ornamenta- 

 tion than the true kris. Worn by those of lower rank and less wealth. 



ToTEMic TYPES. — The totem type, with grotesque human head figurine carved 

 on wooden handle, is produced in the Visayas, usually in Cebu Island. A 

 somewhat similar sword with Javaneselike handle carving, apparently of 

 a fabulous being or Wayong, also originates in the same area. 



Type weapons and models. — Many individual collections of Phil- 

 ippine weapons contain shields displaying miniature weapons of 

 the types ordinarily produced by the Moro, also by the Luzon Island 

 and Visayan tribes. These models mounted on a wooden shield 

 are made of bone, ivory, wood, wire, and other materials; some- 

 times such shields are merely for sale to tourists. The type models 

 displayed often contain examples never encountered in museums or 

 in private collections. It is probable, though, that such specimens 

 actually exist and that the imagination of the toy armorer is not 

 overworked. An analogous instance is found in the Burmese Dah, 

 W'hich has 70 known forms from which the applicant for a sword 

 can choose to have one fashioned. 



The Museum collections contain several type models. One of 

 these consists of type handles of bolo; these models are from Caba- 

 natuan, Iloilo, and represent conventionalized " totem " type handles 

 of Avood construction, spoken of as the " tiger head," so often found 



