Philippines Warrior's Costume

Description:

Philippines Warrior's Costume, Mindanao, Davao Province, Bagobo, c. 1900 or earlier, comprising an ornately decorated woven banana fiber plain weave jacket, a pair of shorts with bead decoration at the legs, a sword in wood scabbard with beaded drops, a fully beaded belt with metal clasps, a fully bead-decorated bag, and a beaded necklace with three animal hair and two horn drops, jacket 14 x 40, pants 27 1/2 x 18 1/2, lg. of sword 23 1/2 in.

Provenance: The Charles and Blanche Derby collection, Northampton, Massachusetts; Skinner, October 17, 1987, Lot 303; The Science Museum of Connecticut, Hartford.
Estimate $3,000-5,000


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