Two Daggers with Sheath. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Two daggers of stunning beauty, in storage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, propose one entry into the work of reassembling the the possible…

Ikat warp blanket. British Museum; Acquired: 1914 Dimensions: 208 cm (including fringes) 124 cm; Materials: woven cotton A textile and a photograph consist this exhibit. Created more or less simultaneously during the turn of the twentieth century,…

A shield and its inscriptions. .British Museum; Acquired: 19th c This round, wooden shield — in the photograph, the inner face is shown, where the wielder's handle is affixed — has a form that appears in late nineteenth and early twentieth…

"Bertha Collar. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1961. Accession Number: 2009.300.2000. Made from the finest fibres of the pineapple…

Fig 1. Carved ivory, with traces of colour and gilding. Victoria and Albert Museum The religious ivory images included in this exhibit are impressive for their excellent quality and creative innovation. The accompanying museum data for the objects…

Fig 1 One of seven embroidered blue silk trousers in the collection of the Leiden Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde). Accession No. RV-566-43. Incomplete pieces of early sartorial ensembles from Manila and environs–acquired as exotica…

Photos of the Madonna and the Christ Child in the Cordell Room.The Country Life. July 31, 1937. In the United Kingdom, one of the repositories of early modern objects originating from Manila may be found, not so much in Museums, but in British…

Warp ikat-dyed abaka, a panel generally referred to as tabih amlatu by the Blaan. Tabih is a widely dispersed Austronesian word for cloth that wraps the body; and amlatu is Blaan for one hundred, referring to the number of warp threads involved in…

Punchbowl made with a Taclobo clam, silver mounted base. Owner and Photo credit: Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History Acc # USNM 1454928 When a 33-piece silver-plated serving…

Tritik-dyed cloth"Banda para llevar al niño" (cloth for carrying an infant), according to the notes of José Rizal, who collected the piece and donated it in 1888. Ethnological Museum of Berlin. Place of Origin: Mindanao. Acquired: 1888. Materials:…

Grave marker from the Sulu Islands. Probably 19th or early 20th century. Wood. 119cm high. Fowler Museum at University of California in Los Angeles It is possible, from one point of view, for one kind of burial ground to be the most beautiful on…

Carved ivory bust of St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary, on a pedestal. 1630 (circa). British Museum. Francis Xavier had only been deceased 78 years, and had only been canonized as Saint for 18 years, when this bust was created in Manila in 1630.…

Head Dress (Solang-solang). Acquired:1909-1911. Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago) Heads and headgear for men concentrated immense attention, among Philippine peoples in antiquity. How long ago is unknown, but when it stopped is clear. By…

Sword (kampilan) made of metal, wood, human hair.. Acquired: 1912. British Museum The chronicler Antonio de Pigafetta may or may not have witnessed the actual death of Fernão de Magalhães on Mactan Island, Central Philippines, 500 years ago…

El arraigo de las costumbres (The Rootedness of Customs) in which a man carries a small open coffin with the lifeless body of a young child. By Ciriaco Gaudínez y Javier, Around 1887. The Prado MuseumNaif. But in any case sad — less because of the…

Rosary, 17th–19th century. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1915. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Philippine Spanish colonial rosaries and necklaces interred in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection are perfectly located for thinking…

Detail of blanket (owës) with designs in raised blue thread -on one side only- © The Field Museum - CC BY-NC, 108887, Catalog No. 108887 InflectionThe verb pilì, “to choose or select”, exists in many of the Philippines’ 170+ languages. The word…

Igorot man (Kalinga?). Watercolour by Ernst Krammann. Ethnological Museum of Berlin. [Part 1] TypesThe watercolors were about people found or met in the place called las islas filipinas. But the image type called tipos del país is best…

Moro de Joló and Mora de Jola by Félix Martínez y Lorenzo (ca. 1859 - 1916). Acquired 1887. National Anthropology Museum Madrid The taxonomic eye Part 2In the Philippines, where the tipos del país of previous centuries are collector prizes, the…

Stick broom (walis). Dated 1884. Acquired from Stolpe, Hjalmar (1841 - 1905), who purchased several items from the Tagalog village of Cabcaben in the Mariviles mountains.. Museum of Ethnography Stockholm On exhibit is a bundle of long ribs of the…

Detail on collection in Regina Coeli Museum (Photo by Alberto Vela Rodrigo) Although Spain has an important Hispanic-Philippine legacy kept in its large museums, it also has a significant number of objects distributed in small parishes or…

Scarf Length, Philippines, mid 1800s, Rhode Island School of Design Museum Introduction In the last three decades, scholars have written broadly on the subject of Philippine piña textiles. However, underlying much of this work is a modern confusion…

Room 61-of the Villanueva Building at Museo del Prado. Photo taken in July 2021, courtesy of Pedro José Martínez Plaza. Técnico de Museos, Área de Pintura del siglo XIX, Museo del Prado. Doctor en Historia del Arte (UCM), Máster Experto Tasador en…

June 27-28 2022

Dyisi Salway and Cristina. Juan preparing the images for the Blaan Kastulen. PROCESS DOCUMENTATION of GATHERING to RECONNECT PHILIPPINE BLAAN CULTURAL MATERIALS STORED OUTSIDE THE COUNTRYby Dyisi SalwayDate: June 27-28, 2022Venue: Horizon…

From Colección de trajes [de] Manila y de las provincias ynbentado por D. Rafael Daniel Baboom y dibujado por D. Damian Domingo page 21 of the Manila Album. V&A Museum, National Art Library, MSL/1984/27/3 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London This…