Sinanbartolome sword from Tayabas, Quezon - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

22nd September 2025, 04:03 PM

xasterix

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Originally Posted by Interested Party

Interesting. This is considered a skinning or butchering pattern?

I believe that Filipinos copied the (varied) blade profiles of the skinning knife used in depictions of St. Bartholomew's martyrdom in 1700s artworks, and translated these into bolo-size form.

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