Burial Shroud Blanket
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS ROBE IS OF BLUE MATERIAL CARRYING WIDE GEOMETRIC PATTERNS AND HAS TWO RED STRIPES 3" WIDE NEAR EITHER END. THERE IS A CARD ON THE ROBE WHICH SAYS: 'IGOROT DEATH ROBE.' ILLUS. PL. 29, BETWEEN PP. 172 & 173 IN HANDWOVEN TEXTILES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA BY SYLVIA FRASER-LU; OXFORD U. PRESS, SINGAPORE, 1988. IDENTIFIED THERE AS ISINAI FUNERARY BLANKET DECORATED WITH DISTINCTIVE PATTERNS IN SMALL BLOCKS OF WHITE WARP IKAT ON AN INDIGO GROUND. THESE PATTERNS ARE THOUGHT TO REPRESENT STYLIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF HUMAN FIGURES, LOCAL FAUNA, AND CULTURAL OBJECTS. THE MOTIFS AT ONE TIME WERE 'READ' BY KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSONS TO DEPICT THE JOURNEY OF A MAN THROUGH LIFE. ISINAI BLANKETS WERE GREATLY SOUGHT AFTER BY THE TRIBAL PEOPLES OF NORTHERN LUZON AND WERE OFTEN IMITATED BY LOCAL WEAVERS. LOOSE WEAVE WITH DOUBLE THREAD WARP & WEFT. BLUE, RED, & WHITE WARP. GRAY WEFT, IKAT DYEING TECHNIQUE. 'THE TEXTILE THAT THE IFUGAO CONSIDERED MOST PRESIGIOUS WAS IMPORTED FROM CHRISTIANIZED ISINAI RESIDING IN THE TOWNS OF ARITAO, BAMBANG, & DUPAX. THIS TEXTILE WAS PRODUCED BY THE IKAT PROCESS, AND IS PERHAPS THE MOST STRIKING TEXTILE FROM NORTHERN LUZON. USED AS A SHROUD, ITS FORM IS ..." (CONT. SEE CARD)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northern Luzon, Luzon, Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Isinai (Isinay)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361025-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shroud
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 218 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 171.5 cm