Interesting Barong

[Ian]

Here are examples of the Visayan hilt on which I believe the Lumad examples are based. The hilt is typically used on machetes used for routine work, but also on weapons. The style seems to have arisen on Visayan weapons in the late 19th or early 20th C.

The first two pictures below (apologies to Hal for borrowing them from his site--I could not find a good example in my archives) shows a machete from the mid- to late-20th C with this style.

Below that are pictures of a Visayan plamenko knife showing the same features.

Ian