Friday, March 25, 2016

Manobo Bags

My hometown named its annual festival after the solok, but the Manobo basket I like most is the kelepi, shown in this photo. To know the different types of Manobo baskets, check out my post the previous Friday.

I failed to properly identify this bag displayed in Delesan Menubo. Among my list of Manobo baskets, the description of a kampilu is the closest to this bag: “oval, vine, tightly woven, large.” This bag, though, is made of reed instead of vine. Based on the description, a kampilu should look like a huge kelepi, but I didn’t see any such basket in the display room. Thus, for now, I’m calling this object a kampilu.

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