Kampilan (sword)
Region
Philippines
Date1800s
Mediumpattern-welded steel, brass and water-buffalo horn
Dimensions65 × 48 cm (25 9/16 × 18 7/8 in.), 1.3 lb (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.488
DescriptionSingle edge blade tapering to rounded point. Artificially "watered" steel blade. Circular section grip, encased in sheet brass, with turnings at ends. Top 1/3 of hilt of carved horn flaring at pommel with floral engraving.ProvenancePresented to the Museum on May 9, 1957 by Nathaniel McL. Sage, Jr. and William H. Sage, III, grandsons of General Sage. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
On View
Not on view
dated 1795-1796; original manufacture possibly 1600s
about 800s
