Very Impressive puppy (woof!
). To answer your question, in Cato's words, yes it is ceremonial. My other thoughts are that it may be Maguindanao, and that it looks like it is a low silver-white brass metal with brass? It is posible that the yellow metal may be swaasa, but not sure by the picture color. Bands on the scabbard are most likely white brass. Only testing the metal at a jewelry store (or me
) would you be able to know for sure. Are these 1920s fittings on a late 1800s blade? Nice catch no matter what. Also, again according to Cato (and Moro culture before the 1920s) datu and sultan metal blades were functional, even if only for status or ceremonial.