Subject: datu chief
Setting: Spanish, American wars, Mindanao-Sulu 1851-1913
Object: kalis kris and similar double-edged short swords = balasiong, gunong
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Swords (kris suluk or sundang)
It has a long, heavy blade, and a wooden hilt with a 'cockatoo' pommel,
These kris were made principally in Mindanao, and used by the Sulu and Moro people." ...
* Farrow Fine Art
* Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América
Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América *
Museo de América > El Conocimiento de América *
* Higgins Armory Museum
Frank Buck Zoo *
* Museo Nacional de Antropologia > Religiones Orientales
"Kriss. Filipinas. Siglo XIX Espada utilizada por los musulmanes del Sur de Filipinas."
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