Thanks guys,
I believe it was made late 19th or early 20th C, on account of the chain links on the belt. Seems native Filipinos were handy recycling any metal scraps they could get their hands on.
They also seem to have been very small, the width of the belt being 27". Heck, as a teen I was tall and thin as a reed, and I vaguely recall (very vaguely, as if an impossible dream) having once had a waist-width of 31"...
Or was it used hanging from the shoulder?
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