Sword, "Parang Latok" And Sheath
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1908
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Newly made latok. Iron blade bent as usual at lower 1/6. Handle of deer (rusa) horn carved with projection crotch at lower end. Sheath carved wood smeared with jermung, a jelly made by boiling the fruit of a small species of rattan." Per Dr. Michael Heppell, Monash University, 7-6-2008, the sheath is red and the catalogue card says it was made from the fruit of a small species of rattan called jermung. Dayak languages are of course quite dissimilar in vocabulary. The Iban, however, call a large rattan by the name jerenang (Daemonorops spp.), the fruit scales of which yield a resin, called Dragon's Blood, which produces a red dye. Jermung and jerenang might be one and the same.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: West, Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Dyak
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 048220
label: USNM Number
content: E249006-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath