M0005692: An Itneg person making an offering to the guardian stones

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Reproduction of a photograph published in Hutchinson, Walter: <i>Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries</i>, London: Hutchinson, 1913. A photograph of the book plate was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10935). The photograph shows an Itneg [exonym: Tinguian] person making an offering to the guardian stones. According to Hutchinson, stones containing the spirits of the guardians are, before certain ceremonies, tied up with bark-like bands and rubbed with oil. Then the blood for a pig is mixed with rice and scattered before them.

M0005692: An Itneg person making an offering to the guardian stones

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