Bowl "kinahu", around 1900 · Philippines - Ifugao · ID: 3040851
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Maria Closa, Manila, Philippines (mid 1980’s)French Collection
Size
L: 32 cm
L: 12.6 inch
Description
wood, rich black patina, in shape of a quadruped with elongated head, slightly dam., minor missing parts, cracks, rep. (breakage at the rim);
bowls of zoomorphic shape are called “kinahu” - meaning “in the shape of a beast”. It is not clearly proven that “kinahu” were used for ceremonial purposes. Most of them served as meat containers or for storing pure salt.
Comparing literature
Anderson, Eric Moltzau, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 175 f.