BALKAW - Blaan Insect Swatter
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Annotated text (Blaan Kastulen June, 2022)
Confirmed as BALKAW - but the use of this is not a fan for cooling but as a swat to drive away mosquitoes. The feathers are made from an ‘Ikong ko’, or the the tail of the horn bill.
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(From reference card of the Field Museum Catalogue Number: 129504)
Balkau: A fan made of feathers stuck into a bamboo tube. South Central Mindanao. BlaanField Museum Catalogue Number: 129473
(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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FIELD-1031048
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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
feather, bamboo
Provenance
Bought for .10 cents.
[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.)
[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: D. Weddle. (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/6b0599ee-f491-4f14-ae0e-55becdebf371 (accessed on 27 Sep 2021)
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“BALKAW - Blaan Insect Swatter,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed April 26, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/18781.
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