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Kulikog (a)

LOCAL NAME:

Kulikog (a)

ENGLISH NAME:

Roasted rice (cho-om) container basket

DESCRIPTION:

A bamboo container basket with a horn-like protruding opening at its two ends. The tail and carved wood lid of this container basket resembles the form of a chicken. It has a strap holder on one side near its rim and a rectangular bamboo base.

COMMONLY USED BY/IN:

Bontoc, Kankana-ey, Mountain Province, Ifugao

MATERIAL COMPOSITION:

Rattan

ITEM CONSTRUCTION:

Basket weaving

DIMENSIONS:

Lid:
Height: 8.5 cm

Tail:
Height: 7 cm

Mouth/opening:
Height: 5.5 cm

Body:
Height: 7.5 cm

Base:
Height: 1 cm
Length: 15.5 cm
Width: 7 cm

Rim:
Diameter: 3 cm

ACQUISITION YEAR:

2021

DISPLAY STATUS:

BURC

RESEARCH DATA:

This particular bamboo kulikog is called the sinanmanok as it resembles the form of a rooster. Just like other kulikog/kalikog, it has a swaybacked shape with one mouth/opening, and is common to the Bontoc and Kankana-ey of the Mountain Province, and also in Ifugao. It is a counterpart for the boy’s roasted green rice container called kamkam-u. Kulikog which is commonly used by girls as a container for cho-om/chu-um (pinipig in Tagalog) or roasted green rice (Bacdayan, 1998; Hamilton, 1998; Yuchengco Museum, 2012) and is considered the most unique of basketry shapes in the Cordilleras (Yuchengco Museum, 2012).

REFERENCES:

Bacdayan, A. S. (1998). Baskets among the Tanulong and Fidelisan Peoples of Northern Sagada. In Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Hamilton, R. W. (1998). Catalog of the Exhibition. In Basketry of the Luzon Cordillera. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

Yuchengco Museum. (2012). Eloquent Simplicity: In Wood and Fiber. Exhibition catalogue.

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