Object Name: Huop/Hukop

Provenance: Banaue, Ifugao
Rattan, bamboo
L 50 cm
MK Collection

Conventionally, the huop, also called hukop, is used to hold cooked rice. This soot-stained huop basket, however, was used as a ritual box. It contains animal skulls and carved wooden sticks from past rituals.