Subject: datu / magani warrior chief
Culture: Bagobo / Manobo and related Lumad peoples
Setting: tribal warfare, Mindanao early 20thc
Object: shield
Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América *
"Escudo de madera y fibras vegetal. (Filipinas)"
Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América *
"Escudo de madera y fibras vegetal. (Filipinas)"
* Virginia War Museum > America at War
"Bagobo Head Hunter's Shield, [CONTRA Hamilton 1998 p172 n23]
Mindanao, Philippines, c. 1901.
Used by natives during the Philippine Insurrection of 1901.
Decorated with tufts of human hair."
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* American Museum of Natural History > Mead Hall of Pacific Peoples
