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Object Number 08-36-70/74368.1
Display Title Priest's knives for cutting open chickens
Descriptions
Inventory Description Knife, steel blade, double edged, wood grip covered with woven fiber
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Ifugao
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Eastern Lepanto
Dimensions Overall: 21.8 x 2.2 x 1.6 cm (8 9/16 x 7/8 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 08-36-70/74368.1

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Priest's knives for cutting open chickens
08-36-70/74368 Priest's knives for cutting open chickens
Knife
Eastern Lepanto
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Priest's knife used in cutting open hogs
08-36-70/74369 Priest's knife used in cutting open hogs
Knife
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Knives
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Knife
Alaska
Priest's ceremonial sword
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Sword
Likiang
Chicken coop, chickens are placed in there at night to keep them from rats
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Container
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto
Women's knives
17-20-10/87221.6 Women's knives
Raw Material
Knife
Canada
Three woman bringing baskets of chickens to town for sale
12-61-70/10861.1.2925 Three woman bringing baskets of chickens to town for sale
Manila
Basket used to carry chickens
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Bontoc
Black wooden mask (To bu Glu) - comes to town when someone dies; all chickens mu
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Raw Material
Mask
Liberia
Two priests conducting a religious ceremony in a dwelling
08-36-00/1.97 Two priests conducting a religious ceremony in a dwelling
Philippines
Chickens
2001.29.9848 Chickens
Mangetti Forest
Chickens
2001.29.9849 Chickens
Mangetti Forest