Pang-iwa (c)
LOCAL NAME:
Pang-iwa (c)
ENGLISH NAME:
Meat cutter/slicer
DESCRIPTION:
Bontoc & Kankana-ey of Mountain Province: Pang-iwa
Barlig, Mountain Province: Kambolo
A kitchen utensil with an anthropomorphic stand. This object was used to grate coconut meat.
COMMONLY USED BY/IN:
Bontoc, Kankana-ey, Mountain Province
MATERIAL COMPOSITION:
Wood, Metal
ITEM CONSTRUCTION:
Woodcarving, Metalwork
DIMENSIONS:
Wooden Stand
Height: 25cm
Base
Length: 26.5cm
Blade
Length: 16cm
ACQUISITION YEAR:
2021
RESEARCH DATA:
The pang-iwa are usually meat-cutters/slicers with wooden stands, however, a pang-iwa from the collection has no blade with sharp edge used to cut meat, rather it has a metal grater specialized to grate coconut’s meat. Just like the typical meat-cutters/slicers, this particular coconut meat grater came from the Mountain Province used by the Bontoc and Kankana-ey, where meat-cutters/slicers of this variant were also found (Anderson, 2010).
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