Subject: kadangyan war leader
Culture: Ifugao
Setting: tribal warfare, Luzon highlands late 19th-20thc
Palace of Wax > Ripley's Believe It or Not! *
"IGOROT MAN 'THE TRAVELER'"
Igorot tribesmen, a mountain tribe of the Philippine Island [SIC],
carved this life-sized statue of a man from one solid piece of mahogany.
Known as the 'wild people,' the Igorot still read omens from animal sacrifices
and venerate sacred tree [SIC] and mountains. Once notorious as headhunters
and merciless warriors, their savage past still makes their neighbors nervous.
Recently one Filipino newspaper warned picnickers that 'It's head-hunting time again!'"
* Museo Nacional de Antropología > Filipinas
"Tallas antropomorfas. Ifugao. Cordillera de Luzón. Siglo XIX.
En estas tallas podemos apreciar el tatuaje que los hombres
se hacían en el pecho y las mujeres en los brazos."
