Philippines Visayan Dagger

[Dimasalang]

Finally got around to taking some pics of my Visayan Dagger I won off eBay about a year or so ago. The seller on eBay posted this up as a Japanese WWII dagger. Stating in the description his grandfather killed a Japanese solder and took it off him...so he believed it to be from Japan. I won this auction for $10US(no one else bid on this item). I always planned on posting it but never got around to it since it was nothing really spectacular or out of the ordinary. But after seeing Roberts great under-the-radar collection, I'll post this one up for reference. This dagger is very basic overall and just simple; but definitely the style and design of the Visayas region. If anyone can provide more details on this dagger, please let me know. I have no idea which specific place or the name of this type of knife would be called. Sorry for the poor camera skills. :)

[Battara]

Interesting piece. Wood seems to be from the inner part of the narra tree.

[migueldiaz]

dimasalang, thanks for the pics!

hiking in bohol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohol) in the visayas one day, i've seen a sundang with such a similar fish tail-looking scabbard (pic attached).

in this post (http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?p=117333&posted=1#post117333) where i mentioned about an anthropology professor citing the possible explanation for the bronze inlays in certain blades, the prof said that is his home province in panay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panay), we can also see such characteristic fish tail-shaped scabbard tips. i can't remember now whether he said it was aklan or capiz province.