Subject: sandatahan 'bolo-man'
Culture: Tagalog Filipino
Setting: Katipunan rebellion, Philippines 1890s-1910s
Object: bolo sword
Tarrant County Courthouse > 1895 Room *
"Filipino Bolo, c1898.
While most of the Filipino insurgents didn't know how to use firearms,
they certainly excelled in the martial arts. This bolo,
a kind of machete, would have been deadly in hand-to-hand combat."
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