Drinking Bowl (Ifugao)

Half of a coconut, edge cut out in a wavy shape; The outside of the bowl is decorated with two incised, congruent zigzag bands. Lambrecht (1932: 72) describes in a rice sacrifice ritual of the Mayawyaw (a subgroup of the Ifugao) how the priest pours rice wine into two ungo't drinking vessels made of coconut shell, places them in two different places and then the gods of the underworld and the gods of the Oberwelt invites you to drink.

Lit .: Lambrecht, F .: Mayawyaw Ritual: Rice and Rice Ritual. Publ. Of the Cath. Anthrop. Conf. Vol IV, No.1, 1932

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