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The Ifugao gammit is a two-paneled wrap-around skirt typically made with red and black stripes of varying sizes, with the black stripes accented by white threads woven into traditional Ifugao motifs. The panels are joined together by a type of stitching called takdong, while the edges are hemmed with hambulud (Martin et al., 2020). This particular gammit from the collection is known as the gammit a nilihha, a variation of the Ifugao gammit in which, instead of the binobodan or ikat (tie-dyeing) technique, the supplementary weft technique was used (Martin et al., 2020). Martin et al. (2020) noted that the gammit is the most ornate of the Ifugao skirts. This textile features traditional Ifugao weaving motifs such as ambayung (hipbag), ginlot (beheaded), hinikitan (shuttle), linuhhung (mortar), tinaggu (human figure), and X-like motifs.