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Sword (Kalis or Sundang)
before 1918
- Medium
- Blade: metal; handle: metal with silver and braided twine; pommel: ivory
- Classification
- Arms and Armor
- Dimensions
- Overall: 61 cm (24 in.); Blade: 49 cm (19 5/16 in.)
- Culture
- Philippines, Mindanao
- 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 sword’s blade is straight near the tip and transitions into gentle undulations toward the lower half. The guard consists of pierced okir wings, secured on one side by a single asang-asang clamp (also called baca-baca by the Maranao). The hilt is wrapped in dark fiber or rattan bindings and metal ferrules, and fitted with a small, comparatively modest cockatoo (kakatua) form.
