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

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/2
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M0005692: An Itneg person making an offering to the guardian stones. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: A Tinguian making an offering to the guardian stones.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph published in Hutchinson, Walter: Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries, 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.

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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