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Male figure made of wood. 1800s-1920s
Curators comments:
Register says: "ancestral figure ( Anito). Kept in the house; skulls of slain enemies are offered to them and great feast are instituted in their honour. If people are disappointed and offereings are no avail, effigies are beaten or pierced with spears, or thrown out of the house."
Exhibited: 1996-97, London, Museum of Mankind, 'Stairways to the Sky: Rice and Life in the Philippines'
Department: Asia
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Date
1800s-1920s
Identifier
As1954,07.274
Origin
Igorot
Materials
Wood
Physical Dimensions
Height: 85.50 centimetres; Weight: 6.63 kilograms; Width: 24.80 centimetres; Depth: 21 centimetres
Provenance
Donated by: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Acquisition Date
1954
Display status
Not on display
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“Figure,” Mapping Philippine Material Culture, accessed May 5, 2024, https://philippinestudies.uk/mapping/items/show/28419.
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