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PLATE XIX

Ancestral image of wood, consecrated by prayers and soaking in the blood of a sacrificed pig or chicken. The spirits of the ancestors were sometimes thought to enter into these images. Ifugao tribe, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.