Archaeology [Solved] Deadly and Beautiful Filipino Weapons

Since my clan is from Jaro Leyte, Waray garab (sometimes mistakenly put in an umbrella term "talibong") it's design usually have a flowery carved pommel, curved handles, no crossguard, and very exaggerated curved one sided blade.

It's used by Pulajan ("those who wore red", "Red Legs")/Dios Dios cult rebellion against the Americans in Leyte.

^Aetas.

Filipino warfare though throwing spears and throwing darts were more likely than bows in combat, although they were noted in many cases used (including the skirmish at Mactan). 

Filipinos used bows for hunting/fishing mostly and those well noted esp. in skills are Negritos/Aetas. Blowguns were also mostly used in hunting.

These are from what I dug up on the internet (some of them the website got them from books in Project Gutenberg)


Plate 2. Projectile weapons: Blowguns, bows, arrows and darts, quiver and dart case. 
No. 1. Palmwood bow; highly polished, grooved, concavo-convex self-bow. Negritos, Zambales Mountains, Island of Luzon. 
2. Heavy palmwood self-bow; flat surfaces, slightly concave on inner side. Negritos, Negros, Visayan Island, P.I. 
3. Palmwood bow wrapped with rattan. Bagobo, Mindanao. 
4. Palmwood bow; cord of bamboo splint. Moro, Mindanao. 
5. Bamboo blowgun: Surface decorated with burned spiral bands and rings; lining tube of reed, sight elevation. Batak, Island of Palawan, Philippine Archipelago. 
6. Arrow case of bamboo provided with rattan basketry cap. Moro, western Mindanao. 
7.Blowgun darts and dart case. Batak, Palawan Island.

Non metallic arrowheads (bamboo/wood)


No. 1. Palmwood arrowhead and bamboo shaft. Moro, Mindanao. 
2. Reed arrow with palmwood foreshaft. Moro, Mindanao. 
3. Bamboo arrow with palmwood foreshaft; poisoned bamboo arrow point inserted in foreshaft. Bikol, Luzon. 
4. Large arrow of bamboo with arrowhead of split bamboo, Bagobo, Mindanao. 
5. Triagular shape arrowhead of bamboo, harpoon shaft. Negritos, Zambales Mouutains, Luzon. 
6. Barbed, triangular bamboo arrowhead, harpoon shaft. Negritos, Zambales Mountains, Luzon Island. 
7. Fish arrow with compound head of bamboo. Bagobo, Mindanao. 
8. Three-pronged or trident compound arrow. Negritos. Zambales Mountains, Luzon.


Plate 4. Metallic harpoon and arrowheads provided with barbed, hastate, three-pointed, harpoon, and composite points. Shaftments. 
No. 1. Short, flat, lanceolate arrowhead,designed to make a large wound and to cause profuse bleeding. Negritos Zambales Mountains. 
2. Long, triangular, iron arrow point, palmwood foreshaft, unfeathered cane shaft. Moro, western Mindanao. 
3. Small, lanceolate shape iron arrowhead, long bamboo shaft; heavy palmwood foreshaft, bulbous at the base. Old Bikol arrow type. 
4. Leaf-shape arrow point of sheet copper, bamboo shaft, foreshaft of wood fast set in shaft with resin. Moro. 
5. Feathered bamboo shaft, large lanceolate shape arrow point. Negritos, Luzon. 
6. Leaf-shape iron arrowhead of excellent workmanship socketed on hardwood shaft, no foreshaft. Moro, Jolo Archipelago. 
7. Large feathered bamboo shaft, hastate shape iron arrow point. Negritos, Luzon.
8. Small triangular iron head, palmwood foreshaft, reed shaft. Moro, Mindanao. 
9. Ferruled wooden shaft, long hastate shape barbed iron arrow point. Moro. 
10. Long quadrangular barbed iron arrowhead. Negritos, Luzon. 
11-13. Composite arrow shaftments; feathered shaft provided with lanyard and retrieving cord, barbed toggle harpoon type of arrow point. Designed for hunting pigs. Negritos.

http://www.vikingsword.com/rila/krieger.html

Mandaya weaponry.

Mandaya bolo: short, no crossguard, kakatua (pommel with 's' shaped pointy end, also found in Panay---albeit these esp. by the Suludnon are designed with a 'head'/deity/monster---and Basilan etc.), one sided, exaggerated convex near the point and concave near the hilt and the signature square shaped bit that juts out of the narrow end of the blade. L shaped scabbard. Majority of traditional Mandaya weapons have bits and pieces or scabbards made out of silver...since they traditionally were good silversmiths.

Many Lumad tribesmen traditionally carried a bag (trinkets, betel nut etc.) that hangs from the shoulder to the side (usually left), sometimes they also carried the scabbards this way (instead of on the hip). I'm not sure if Mandayas carried it like so, but there are many pictures of other lumads carrying blade this way.







This one with a less pronounced pommel



Bayadaw (popularly known in the Philippines as "balaraw") Mandaya leaf shaped/double edged dagger.

T'boli kampilan.

Curved (usually) brass handle with intricate design, with basic thin crossguard, straight like the other (Moro) kampilan and shares similar the distinctive double points, straight one sided blade---excepting this kampilan is shorter and lighter. Also straight scabbard, unlike the Moro version which 'thins' out at the bottom. Pommel is the most distinctive, although there are 'split swallow tail' designs (in which the usually wooden Moro version is usually designed with alligators mouth and real horse or animal hair) most of the T'boli blades have square end and instead of hair, it's usually designed with what in Tagalog they would call metal "burloloy" (intricate ornamentation that usually hangs at the ends)---often times they are twisted metals/little chains with beads, a few have been found to have bells.

Pommel


This one has typical Moro kampilan design (swallow tail pommel with actual horse/animal hair) with a boat lute player on the end.


Scabbard end (a lot of scabbards have this double horse/animal hair ornamentation)


The signature kampilan double points (excepting on those that broke off the upper 'teeth', they usually instead serrate the edge)


When 'upper teeth' is broken off or missing, they put serration (there are also ones with the teeth still present, full of serration or nicks---probably shows fighting style).