Inalson is a ceremonial textile used as a birth blanket during the gipas rites carried out before childbirth (Salvador-Amores, 2019); as a ritual paraphernalia of a priestess during an after-harvest ceremony called the sayyang; and as a curtain to separate offerings put forward during festivities (Respicio, 2000). It is described as a plain white cloth woven using plain or twill weave and is believed to be “possessed by a spirit” (Cole, 1922, p. 313). On its borders are found warp-floating mortar-like motifs (inal-alsong) which are said to resemble real-life rice mortars in Northern Luzon (Respicio, 2000). This textile from the collection is a sample textile of this blanket – executed on a banner-sized piece of cloth.