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Description	English: Plate 9 -- Two-handed chopping and cutting parangs. No. 1. Heavy steel beheading blade "tabas." Curved and truncated like a scimitar; long curved double-handle grip wrapped with braided rattan and inlaid with lime. Moro, Malabang, Mindanao. 2. Heavy chopping blade "talibong," double sigmoid curve. Two-handed carved wooden handle hooped with brass bands. Moro, Mindanao. 3. Headsman's ax "talibong." Moro, western Mindanao. 4. Beheading sword and chopping blade "talibong." Heavy double-edged curved blade. Moro, Mindanao. 5. Heavy two-edged blade with sigmoid curve. Hexagonal wooden handle curved and wound with rattan splints. Moro, Mindanao. 6. Broad backed, deeply concave blade "pirah." Convexly curved cutting edge and long point. Elbow at base of blade near guard piece similar to the parang-latok of the Dyaks of Borneo; figured wood handle provided with symbolic recurved horns and median spike. Southern and Visayan Islands. Other images on Filipino weapons by the same uploader are here: (a) Luzon weapons; (b) Visayan weapons; (c) Moro weapons; and (d) Lumad (non-Moro Mindanao) weapons
Date	1926
Source	The Collection of Primitive Weapons and Armor of the Philippine Islands in the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution; 1926: United States National Museum Bulletin No. 137
Author	Herbert W. Krieger

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