Boîte rituelle "punamhan" avec têtes zoomorphes
Philippines - Ifugao
Vendu
1 600 €
Provenance
Tadashi Morita, Tokyo, JapanTaille
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.