Barong
Philippines - Western Mindanao
not available anymore
Size
L: 59 cm
L: 23.2 inch
Description
handle of fine-grained wood (“banate”) in shape of a stylized bird head (cockatoo or parrot), partly covered with silver metal sheet, leaf-shaped iron blade, wooden sheath with delicate volute motifs incised in the handle zone, slightly dam., cracks (sheath)
because of the elegant form presumably from the Sulu archipelago.