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===Other products=== Carabao [[Hide (skin)|hide]] was once used extensively to create a variety of products, including the armor of precolonial Philippine warriors. The horns are also carved and used to make the [[hilt|pommel]]s of Philippine swords and bladed tools like [[bolo knife|bolos]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QOI_AAAAYAAJ&q=Carabao+hide+armor&pg=RA1-PA107|title=Bulletin β United States National Museum|date=1917|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|pages=107|language=en}}</ref> Carabao hide is still used for [[leather]] production with an estimated total market value of $10 million, as of 2002.<ref name="Roque"/> <!-- <gallery widths="200" heights="160"> File:Various Philippine animals and plants frame 1, detail from Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas.jpg|An illustration from the ''[[Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas]]'' (1734) shows carabaos as beasts of burden File:Carabao Cart.jpg|Carabao cart in the [[Philippines]] (c. 1899) File:Skinscompared.JPG|The hardened hide of a carabao (left) and a cow (right), displayed in the Crisologo Museum, in [[Vigan]], [[Ilocos Sur]], Philippines File:Ploegen met behulp van een karbouw op de Filippijnen, KITLV D7306.tiff|Ploughing using a carabao in the Philippines, circa pre-1935 </gallery> -->
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