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>Costume Studies
>>1918 Bagobo magani
>>>belt
Subjectdatu / magani warrior chief
Culture: Bagobo / Manobo and related Lumad peoples
Setting: tribal warfare, Mindanao early 20thc
Object: belt







* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Pacific Islands Hall
"Belt
beads, brass, cotton fiber, hemp cloth
Philippines, Luzon, Davao District,
Bagobo
Bagobo men usually wear two belts.  One is functional: holding up  their trousers; the second is decorative."  ....