Kalasag
The Kalaság or Kalasak is a large rectangular wooden shield used by precolonial Filipinos. The shield is made of hardwood and is decorated with intricate carvings and an elaborate rattan binding on the front.[1] The wood comes from native trees such as the dapdap, polay and sablang.[2] The shield usually measured about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length and 0.5 m (1.6 ft) in width. Its base is composed of rattan wood which is strengthened by the application of resin coating that turned rock-hard upon drying.[3]
It was widely used throughout the Philippines for warfare. Datu
The officers who bears the royal regalia of the
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Bagobo warriors from Davao(1926), the warrior in the center is holding a kalasag -
Various kinds of kalasag from Mindanao displayed in the National Museum of Anthropology -
A Moro kalasag (c. 1905) -
An Igorot kalasag (c. 1905) -
Kaamulan Festival -
Visayan warriors with both taming and kalasag shields from the Historia de las Islas e Indios de Bisayas (c. 1668) by Francisco Ignacio Alcina -
A 1922 photograph of ashaman of the Itneg people renewing an offering to the spirit (anito) of a warrior's kalasag
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See also
References
- ^ New York Academy of Sciences, Synergy (Online service) (1917). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York Academy of Sciences. p. 236.
- ISBN 978-0-8165-0061-1. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ISBN 978-0-8248-2035-0. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ISBN 978-971-622-010-0
- ISBN 978-974-480-094-7.
See also
- Filipino Martial Arts
- Arnis
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