Homemade Filipino Gun
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
notes: label: Description
content: Physical Description
label: Description
content: Homemade Filipino gun.
label: Description
content: General History
label: Description
content: Filipinos fighting the United State Army resorted to making their own firearms. This handmade gun harkens back to the earliest of firearms, the hand cannon. The gun was muzzle-loaded and the charge was set off by applying fire to a touchhole in the side of the barrel.
place: label: place made
content: Philippine Islands
label: used
content: Philippines
topic: label: Subject
content: Firearms
label: related event
content: Philippine–American War
label: related event
content: The Emergence of Modern America
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
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content: Military
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content: ThinkFinity
label: Exhibition
content: Price of Freedom
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.NM367
label: accession number
content: 319944
label: catalog number
content: NM367
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gun
label: Object Type
content: Gun
label: Other Terms
content: gun; Firearms; H; .90 In; Smooth Bore; Muzzle Load; Sa
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: twine (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 49 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 124.46 cm x 4.445 cm