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Object Number 14-29-70/85793
Display Title Knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sword, iron blade, circular guard, wood carved pommell, human face
Classification
  • Sword
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Moro
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Philippines / Mindanao
Materials Wood, Steel
Dimensions Overall: 61.5 x 5.4 x 5.8 cm (24 3/16 x 2 1/8 x 2 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 85793
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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