An Ifugao hinalung knife Philippines with a rattan covered hollow handle

An Ifugao hinalung knife

Philippines

with a rattan covered hollow handle,

46cm long,

with an open wood scabbard and a ginnutu belt with twenty-two graduated shell discs and a scalloped central upud, and a scabbard with a boar's tusk and a ginnutu belt with twenty-four shell discs with red dyed rattan and a scalloped upud and a carved wood head. (3)

Provenance

The Luciano Federico Collection.