Ritual box "punamhan" · Philippines - Ifugao · ID: 3047935
sold
EUR 1,600
Provenance
Tadashi Morita, Tokyo, JapanSize
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.
The object Ritual box “punamhan” with the object ID 3047935 was part of the auction 96th Auction on April 24, 2021. The object with the lot number 14 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600 with an asking price of EUR 1,500.
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Comparing literature
Moltzau-Anderson, Eric, In the shape of tradition, Leiden 2010, p. 151