A PAIR OF LLONGOT (NORTHERN LUZON) MAN'S EARRINGS, batling, each an angled section of hornbill beak with brass tips and bases suspending incised rectangular and drop-shaped shell pendants

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A PAIR OF LLONGOT (NORTHERN LUZON) MAN'S EARRINGS, batling, each an angled section of hornbill beak with brass tips and bases suspending incised rectangular and drop-shaped shell pendants
14cm. long (2)

拍品专文

Susan Rodgers (Power and Gold, Geneva, 1985) writes of these earrings: The batling was a proud sign of masculine prestige and headhunting prowess, and announced that the wearer was a full adult member of village society, since he had taken a head and thus shed the burdens of immaturity.