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Armlet
Ifugao, Philippinen
consisting of two boar tusks, joined by plaited plant fibre weave, a sitting 'bulul' figure attached, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
was worn around the upper arm.
Ifugao is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. It is named after the term 'i-pugo' which means 'i' (from/people) and 'pugo' (earth), thus 'people of the earth'.
D: 13 cm; H: 13,5 cm, (5256/004)
Lit.: Anderson, Eric Moltzau, In the shape of tradition, Indigenous Art of the Philippines, Leiden 2010, p. 326





