Kimata/Gimata (a)
LOCAL NAME:
Kimata/Gimata (a)
ENGLISH NAME:
Men’s carrying basket
DESCRIPTION:
A double woven basket using rattan strips, reinforced by rattan sticks. Connected by a wooden pole, each basket has four feet that serve as its primary body framing. Its wooden pole is slightly curved to create a more balanced momentum when lifting it using the shoulder.
COMMONLY USED BY/IN:
Mountain Province, Ifugao
MATERIAL COMPOSITION:
Rattan, Wood
ITEM CONSTRUCTION:
Basket weaving
DIMENSIONS:
Pole:
Height: 3.9 cm
Length: 160 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Basket A:
Diameter: 38.8 cm
Height: 22.5 cm
Basket A’s Base:
Height: 2 cm
Length: 27.5 cm
Width: 27 cm
Basket A’s feet:
Length: 10.5 cm
Basket B:
Diameter: 39.7 cm
Height: 21.5 cm
Basket B’s Base:
Height: 2.5 cm
Length: 27 cm
Width: 27.9 cm
Basket B’s feet:
Length: 10 cm
ACQUISITION YEAR:
2021
RESEARCH DATA:
A rattan double basket is commonly called kimata (Bontoc) and gimata (Ifugao and Kankana-ey). The wooden pole, called patang by the Bontok, is detachable. It allows each of the baskets to be used individually. The detached baskets are called luwa.
It is a carrying basket commonly used by men in the field as a load transporter for newly harvested rice, vegetables, and root crops (Lane, 1998; Bacdayan, 1998; Hamilton, 1998). On certain occasions, like the wedding seasons (December to February and June to August), this burden basket is used to transport the meat of large animals, such as cows and water buffalos, butchered from the outskirts of the villages (Bacdayan, 1998). Moreover, it is also used to transfer collected pig manure fertilizers from stone-lined pits to crop fields (Hamilton, 1998). This was also a primary transport basket used by the locals from the villages of Fidelisan and Tanulong in Sagada and in Bontoc, Mountain Province (Bacdayan, 1998; Museo Kordilyera, 2023). It was very common for every household to have at least one gimata/kimata (Bacdayan, 1998).
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