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Scabbard
before 1916
- Medium
- Wood with thread
- Classification
- Arms and Armor
- Dimensions
- Overall: 1.3 cm (1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Philippines
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Oceania
- Credit line
- Gift of J. H. Wade
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This is the upper section of a kalis scabbard, carved from a single block of hardwood. The carved walls follow the classic okir-inflected contouring, though the decoration is restrained. A single vertical motif—likely a simplified dapun (leaf) element—is incised along the center line, with the rest of the surface left plain.
