Kris Sword with Sheath

Unidentified Moro maker

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early 20th century

Steel, wood, brass, and plant fiber

Overall: 26 1/16 × 4 3/4 in. (66.2 × 12 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.25979

Geography

Place Made: Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia

Period

20th century

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Provenance

Peter Johnson (possibly Captain Peter E. Johnson, 1875-1912), San Francisco, California; to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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