Calipan (also called kalepan) is an ear ornament of the Ilongot, otherwise known as Bugkalot, an ethnolinguistic group found in Nueva Vizcaya. They are made of small beads, brass wires, and mother-of-pearl that has been carved. The affluent Bugkalot, both sexes, wore these exquisite ear ornaments made of tiny mother-of-pearl discs with an iridescent sheen. They are embellished with tear-shaped mother-of-pearl, beads, and dangling fringes of coiled brass wires with a metal hoop placed in the disc's centre hole (Carlson, 2013). Men wear this on the helixes of their ears, women on their pierced lobes.Owning a calipan demonstrates social and financial capacity, enabling a community to engage in trade.