SFUT - Blaan Blow Gun and 5 LAMAN SFUT (Darts)

Annotated text (Blaan Kastulen June, 2022)

Confirmed as SFUT - Used to hunt wild birds in the forest. Made from cotton fiber and from a small variety of rattan.

Original Text

(From reference card of the Field Museum Catalogue Number: 129527) 

Name: SŌFŌT 

A blow gun made out of a single joint of reed. Upper half ornamented with cut and incised designs. The darts -laman sofot- are made of bamboo, pointed at one end and with tufts of cotton at the other. Used principally by boys when hunting birds. Said not to be poisoned.

Fieldwork number: 1716;

Other names: Sofot,Laman sofot;

Field Museum Catalogue Number: 129527

(Note: all instances of either B'laan, Bilaan or Bila-an in the Mapping Database have been changed to Blaan after specific requests from the Blaan of Sarangani Province June 2022. This would differ from the terminology in the original record, which is considered derogatory by the Blaan.)

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Identifier

FIELD-1030958

Origin

Cultural affiliation: Blaan (Note: all instances of either B'laan, Bilaan or Bila-an in the Mapping Database have been changed to Blaan after specific requests from the Blaan of Sarangani Province June 2022. This would differ from the terminology in the original record, which is considered derogatory by the Blaan. Read more...)

Materials

Cotton

Provenance

[1139] Fifth R.F. Cummings Ethnological Expedition to Philippines Islands - ethnology - Manobo, Blaan, and Divavaan Mandaya (Expedition) Accession number: 1139; Collected by Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole (Note: all instances of either B'laan, Bilaan or Bila-an in the Mapping Database have been changed to Blaan after specific requests from the Blaan of Sarangani Province June 2022. This would differ from the terminology in the original record, which is considered derogatory by the Blaan.)

Acquisition Date

1911

Display status

Not on display

Acknowledgements

Courtesy of: M. P. Lambruschi. (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/16a6ca06-5043-4df4-aca5-007019fc84fa (accessed on 12 Oct 2021)

Official Website

https://philippines.fieldmuseum.org/heritage/catalogue/1030958

Collection

The Field Museum of Natural History

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“SFUT - Blaan Blow Gun and 5 LAMAN SFUT (Darts),” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed April 26, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/17253.

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