Artifacts
 

73 Granary door panel, 108 cm high and 25.5 cm wide, showing a female figure carved in deep relief with legs and arms spread apart (in birth position?), and slot for wood door bolt in middle. Native name is "Pamadingan". This was used by the Kankanay ethnic group as part of the doorway for a rice granary hut. Registered as a Cultural Property by the National Museum of the Philippines, with stamp 0065843, ca. 1975, from Bontoc region in Mountain Province. (See Casal, The People and Art of the Philippines, 1981, fig 256; and Anderson, Indigenous Art of the Northern Philippines, fig. 317 and p. 199).