BOLO

a weapon resembling a sword, or cutla , peculiar to the Philippines. It is about 18 inches in length, slightly curved and from two to inches wide. Though used in warfare with great skill in hand to hand fighting, it is more e entially a tool of domestic use, taking the place of an axe among agriculturalists of other countries. It is also used for cutting brush, harvesting rice and, above all, for cutting bamboo into the many articles of use for which that material is used. So dependent are the Filipino agricultural workers on this tool that they were allowed to have it in their po e ion universally, during the Spanish regime, though the carrying of all other kinds of arms was strictly forbidden.