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Bontoc Museum

TIME : 2016/2/17 15:52:20

At this wonderful museum, powerful black-and-white photos and indigenous music accompany the exhibits – one for each of the region’s main tribes. You may spot Kalinga headhunter axes, gansa (gong) handles made with human jawbones, and fanitan (baskets used for carrying severed heads), as well as delicately etched nose flutes, snake-spine headdresses of Bontoc women, bark raincoats of the Ifugao, traditional woven loincloths worn by men from each Cordillera group, and bamboo pipes used as containers for rice wine offerings.