Lot 271 D‡α

Cf. de Monbrison, C. et al., "Philippines: an Archipelago of Exchange", Paris, 2013, fig.194. The author states that such headdresses, called "panglao", were worn by dancers at feasts to celebrate the return from a victorious head-hunting expedition. The dancers would mimic the flight of birds. The right to wear such headdresses was part of the rites of passage from boy to manhood.