Animal Head Container (Igorot)

Allegedly: flour bushes. Meyer and Schadenburg depict a similar piece (1890 vol. VIII, panel 14, fig.7, Kianganen, North Luzon, description p.17): "Box with pig's heads (carved from wood) as a handle .... Rare piece, is used to store arm rings, seeds and the like. "
Lit .: Publ. Dresden Museum 1890 Vol. VIII

"Ceremonial container"
see: Kohnen, Norbert, 1986, Igorot. Everyday life and traditional ways of healing among Filipino mountain tribes, Triltsch Verlag Düsseldorf, Fig. 45, p. 62, p. 97

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