Ritual box "punamhan"

Philippines - Ifugao

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.

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

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