Ear ornament · Philippines - Ifugao · ID: 3033423
sold
EUR 300
Size
H: 8 cm
B: 13,5 cm
H: 3.1 inch
B: 5.3 inch
Description
tortoise shell, butterfly-shaped, notches on the upper rim, calcification backside;
worn in pairs as ear ornament: used among the Kalinga, Bontoc and Ilonggot. Because of the second drilled hole at the bottom it might as well have been part of a breast ornament “isneg”, where several such shell ornaments were arranged one on top of each other (see D. Baradas, 1995, pl. 20).
Comparing literature
Baradas, David, Land of the Morning, Treasures of the Philippines, San Francisco 1995, plate 15 Anderson, Eric Moltzau, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 317