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Ritual box "punamhan", Philippines - Ifugao, Size: H/B/T: 17,5 cm x 29,5 cm x 16 cm (box) B: 54 cm (with zoomorphic heads) (H/B/T: 6.9 inch x 11.6 inch x 6.3 inch (box) B: 21.3 inch (with zoomorphic heads)), ID: 3047935
Ritual box "punamhan", Philippines - Ifugao, Size: H/B/T: 17,5 cm x 29,5 cm x 16 cm (box) B: 54 cm (with zoomorphic heads) (H/B/T: 6.9 inch x 11.6 inch x 6.3 inch (box) B: 21.3 inch (with zoomorphic heads)), ID: 3047935 - 2/4 Ritual box "punamhan", Philippines - Ifugao, Size: H/B/T: 17,5 cm x 29,5 cm x 16 cm (box) B: 54 cm (with zoomorphic heads) (H/B/T: 6.9 inch x 11.6 inch x 6.3 inch (box) B: 21.3 inch (with zoomorphic heads)), ID: 3047935 - 3/4 Ritual box "punamhan", Philippines - Ifugao, Size: H/B/T: 17,5 cm x 29,5 cm x 16 cm (box) B: 54 cm (with zoomorphic heads) (H/B/T: 6.9 inch x 11.6 inch x 6.3 inch (box) B: 21.3 inch (with zoomorphic heads)), ID: 3047935 - 4/4
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Lot 14
96th Auction

Ritual box "punamhan" ·  Philippines - Ifugao · ID: 3047935

sold EUR 1,600
Provenance
Tadashi Morita, Tokyo, Japan
Size
H/B/T: 17,5 cm x 29,5 cm x 16 cm (box)
B: 54 cm (with zoomorphic heads)
H/B/T: 6.9 inch x 11.6 inch x 6.3 inch (box)
B: 21.3 inch (with zoomorphic heads)

Description

wood, two-part, thick encrusted sacrificial patina

This type of container was used by Ifugao priests during harvest rituals and served to store various objects associated with rice fields.

They included, for example, bamboo sticks, each of which represented a pig that had been exchanged to pay for the field.

Comparing literature

Moltzau-Anderson, Eric, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 151

Asia

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