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Ethnographic Art, Antiques, and Artifacts from the Mountains of Northern Luzon
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Original caption reads:
"Ifugao priests or Medicine men preparing to perform sacrificial canao to cure the broken leg of the author.
The man in the center with striped blanket is the Chief Medicine Man"
Life or Death in Luzon: Thirty Years of Adventure with the Philippine Headhunters. Page 248
New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1933
By Samuel Kane in collaboration with Clarence H. Larmore
In foreground, from left to right: "bangibang" wood idiophone percussion bar; "gusi" imported porcelain jar for rice wine; "punamhan" anthromorphic carved wood ritual box; "duyo" wood serving bowl (partialy obscured); small "gusi" (partially obscured); "inabnutan" ritual Ifugao backpack
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Rattan and Bamboo PASIKING backpacks in small, medium, and large
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Pasiking are the ancient, indigenous backpacks found among the various ethno-linguistic groups of the Northern Philippines.
From the sacred to the mundane, these traditional and contemporary handwoven artifacts are exemplars of functional basketry.
Some of these tribal groups are: Apayao/Isnag, Abra/Tinguian, Kalinga, Gaddang, Bugkalot, Applai, Mountain Province/Bontoc,
Ilagod, Bago, Kankana-ey, Balangao, Ibaloi, Ifugao,Ikalahan, Kalanguya, Karao, and Ilongot
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