IFUGAO HEADHUNTER’S FETISH CONTAINER

4 ¼” height, finely woven as a back pack with upturned edge lid. Suspension loops to hang in the beams of the house. Ifugao fetishes were consecrated and placed in the beams of the lodge houses along with the skulls of victims. They were captured during the Philippine Insurrection of 1899. Fine basket weave in the form of a back pack or head basket. Excellent with good Ifugao lodge house patina.