Artifacts
 

123 Round jar-shaped basket of coiled construction with two handles and top lid, 33 cm high. Such a basket, called an ulbung, was used to store a few days supply of hulled rice inside the house. The handles were used to hang the basket to keep it away from rodents. From Ifugao or Mountain Province, purchased in Sagada in 1993. (Cf. Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera, Philippines, by the UCLA Fowler Museum, Catalogue number 5, and Fig. 1.13 shows such baskets in-situ in an Ifugao house). Recently sold