The set consists of a huge Moro panabas (95 cm long, or about 37 1/2 inches), a larger-than-usual Moro kampilan (116 cm, or about 45 1/2 inches), and a fine Moro armor.
Typically, a Moro kampilan's length ranges from 90 to 100 cm (36 to 40 inches).
A detailed discussion about the above kampilan can be found at the Ethnographic Arms & Armour forum.
Photo courtesy of Gavin at Swordsandantiqueweapons.com
The Philippine full-wave and the half-wave kalis (kris) swords are commonly associated with the Moros of southern Philippines.
The fact of the matter however is that krises (as well as kampilans) were used throughout the Philippine archipelago, even before the precolonial times (1500s and earlier):
Tagalogs [of Luzon] fought with the usual Philippine weapons -- the single-edged balaraw dagger, the wavy kris (kalis), spears with both metal and fire-hardened tips, padded armor and carabao-hide breastplates, and long narrow shields (kalasag), or round bucklers (palisay). -- William Henry Scott, Barangay: Sixteenth-Century Philippine Culture and Society, 1994.
Examples of such krises (Luzon, i.e., northern Philippines, probably 19th century) are shown above. The full-wave kris on top probably had Visayan (i.e., central Philippines) influence, given the parallel engravings on the ricasso.
The dimensions of the above examples are as follows:
Full-wave kris
Overall length = 562 mm (22 1/8 inches)
Blade length = 438 mm (17 1/4 inches)
Blade at widest = 41 mm (1 5/8 inches)
Blade at thickest = 8 mm (5/16 inch)
Half-wave kris
Total length = 690 mm (27 3/16 inches)
Blade length = 549 mm (21 5/8 inches)
Blade at widest = 40 mm (1 9/16 inches)
Blade at thickest = 5 mm (3/16 inch)
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