Homemade Filipino Gun
Homemade Filipino Gun
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- Description
- Physical Description
- Homemade Filipino gun.
- General History
- Filipinos fighting the United State Army resorted to making their own firearms. This handmade gun harkens back to the earliest of firearms, the hand cannon. The gun was muzzle-loaded and the charge was set off by applying fire to a touchhole in the side of the barrel.
- Object Name
- gun
- Object Type
- Gun
- date made
- ca 1900
- place made
- Philippine Islands
- used
- Philippines
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- twine (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5 in x 49 in x 1 3/4 in; 12.7 cm x 124.46 cm x 4.445 cm
- ID Number
- AF.NM367
- accession number
- 319944
- subject
- Firearms
- Philippine Insurrection
- The Emergence of Modern America
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- Military
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- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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