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Visayan Binagong
Weapon Picture:
Period:
Pre 1900
Origin:
Barotac, Panay Island in Southern Visaya Hilt: Carved wooden figural deity hilt with silver plates and silver wire work to accentuate the diety’s facial features. Octagonal silver ferrule and carve carabao (native domestic water buffalo) horn disc guard with silver trim. Silver ferrule and silver disc guard trim are fully engraved with floral decorative motif. Provenance engraved on ferrule Barotac on one side and Panay on the other.
Blade: Chisel ground blade with a down ward klewang shaped.
Scabbard: Wooden scabbard with brass bands and brass scabbard tip and by scabbard mouth. Thinner and flatter are typical characteristics.
Overall length:
68.5 cm
Blade length:
56 cm
Handle length:
12.5 cm
Source:
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This straight, heavy bladed kris is typical of Mindanao kris from the late 19th C. This one carries two inscriptions, “Dr. W.A. Christensen Reina Regente,” and a fainter one, “From Datu Piang Mindanao.” Dr. Waldemar A.caribbean vacation packages Christiansen was a physician with the U.S. forces in the Philippines during and after the Spanish-American War. He was stationed at the former Spanish fort of Regina Regente, South Cotobato from 1904 to 1906. Datu Piang, the head datu of the Maguindanao people, was the most powerful Moro leader in the early 20th century and his compound was adjacent to Reina Regente. golf vacationThis sword likely was presented to Dr. Christiansen by Datu Piang during the doctor’s time in southern Mindanao.