86 BULLETIN 137, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Length of blade, 15.5 centimeters (6.1 inches) ; length of blade and 

 handle, 26.2 centimeters (10.3 inches). Collected by Arthur R. 

 Fergusson. (PI. 13, No. 3.) Cat. No. 324350, U.S.N.M. 



Knife, Bagobo, Davao Province, Mindanao.- — This knife, known 

 as a AYoman's knife, is similar to the knife just described; the handle 

 is composed of solid brass with an ornamental design etched on the 

 grip. This design consists of rickrack patterns encircling the grip 

 transversely and by embossed flutings at intervals of 0.5 centimeter. 

 The pommel is of punched brass from Avhich an ornamental cover 

 plate has been lost. 



Length of blade, 15.5 centimeters (6.1 inches). Collected by 

 Arthur R. Fergusson. Cat. No. 324349, U.S.N.M. 



Knife, Bagoho, Mindanao. — The blade resembles the two Bagobo 

 knives just described. There is a series of ornamental embossed 

 flutings in the proximal sector adjoining the ferrule. The cutting- 

 edge terminates 2 centimeters from the proximal end. The handle 

 is composed of red lauan, a dipterocarp hardwood. There is an iron 

 ferrule at the neck but none at the basal end of the handle. The 

 sheath consists of a rattan inner section woven in a combination of 

 coiled and twilled weaves. Covering this basketry core is a cotton 

 cloth waxed with black cement paste of which black beeswax is a chief 

 ingredient. As the sheath is carried at the left side of the waist, 

 there is no ornamentation of the sheath on the inner side. The outer 

 side is covered with beadwork woven in close mesh in typical Bagobo 

 patterns geometric in their nature. White, yellow, red, and black 

 beads are employed. A belt for suspending the sheath to the waist 

 is built up on a foundation of red cotton cloth, followed with a 

 braided weave of abaca fiber, colored red, purple, and the natural 

 straw color; above these two layers is a network of beads in close 

 weave arranged in longitudinal lines at the edges of the belt and in 

 circles at the center. The colors employed are white, red, yellow, 

 black, and striated. A border of looped copper wire extends from 

 base of sheath to the tip at botli sides. 



Length of blade, 15.5 centimeters (6.1 inches) ; length of blade 

 and sheath, 27 centimeters (10.6 inches). Collected by Misses E. H. 

 and S. S. Metcalf. Cat. No. 286204, U.S.N.M. 



Knife. — The blade of this weapon is similar in outline to the 

 weapons or knives just described. The handle is of a dipterocarp 

 hardwood ornamentally carved. The sheath is of rattan splints cross 

 woven between two upright braces. Bagobo, Davao, Mindanao. 



Length of blade, 25.5 centimeters (10 inches). Collected by 

 Alonzo H. Stewart. Cat. No. 230817, U.S.N.M. 



Knife, Tagalog, Luzon. — This steel blade could also be considered 

 a sword, as the weapon has been employed in warfare and conforms 

 to the generalized barong-bolo type of sword or parang. The blade 



