there are.....many...many...many.....of these around.... make up your own price....and see where it goes !
@Any Jewelry , first time I have ever seen one of these , and I have been through every airport tourist shop in the Philippines . Not saying this isn't a "Philippine dragon mask" , but if it is , is it a tourist carving adopted from Thailand or Indonesia , as I have never seen any mention of such in any of my Philippine's anthropology books from 1898 up to 1930's. Wondering what your take was on it .....
BAKUNAWA: The Moon Eating Dragon Of Philippine Mythology. Reading more on this from a link posted by @Any Jewelry in 2016 , I am not buying into this being anything but a currently carved tourist item or one from the last 30 years .First off, Ifugao or Bontoc or Kalinga are / were mountain head hunter tribes and have nothing to do with anything remotely Visayan be it Cebuano, Ilonggo, Baholono or further south in Mindanao. Seeing there are at least 134 unique ethnic groups ( My wife is Magahat / Ilonngo ) , I could be wrong, but I am thinking not. Sad MAGAHAT sounds like a Trump thing... I think they should file a lawsuit....lol.
I don't have a take on these tourist items, other than that I don't like them. But that is my personal taste, I am sure other people like them, otherwise they wouldn't buy them. I think that is the general consensus here, although Filipina Maria Aud got a bit upset about that in the 2016 thread: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/where-does-this-wood-mask-come-from.7673/page-2 We never see them here in the Netherlands btw, even though we have a lot of Dutch-Filipino marriages. Could they have been sold around US military bases?
demon mask devil mask dragon mask ifuago mask Philippine mask all search terms that get you to the 100's of thousands of these floating around...........
Yes, there are countless on the www. Let's hope they stay there. I respect tradition, but this has as much to do with tradition as fake Hawaiian 'Tikis' imo. This is Filipino tradition:
