Bulul, also known as bul-ul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao peoples of northern Luzon.
15th century bulul with a pamahan (ceremonial bowl) in the Louvre Museum
Wooden images of the ancestors in a museum in Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines
Ifugao people rice gods or deities in a museum
The Ifugao people are the ethnic group inhabiting Ifugao province in the Philippines. They reside in the municipalities of Lagawe, Aguinaldo, Alfonso Lista, Asipulo, Banaue, Hingyon, Hungduan, Kiangan, Lamut, Mayoyao, and Tinoc. The province is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines with an area of only 251,778 hectares, or about 0.8% of the total Philippine land area. As of 1995, the population of the Ifugaos was counted to be 131,635. Although the majority of them are still in Ifugao province, some of them have moved to Baguio, where they work as woodcarvers, and to other parts of the Cordillera Region.
Young Ifugao women in traditional attire
An Ifugao man from Banaue
Banaue Rice Terraces
An Ifugao warrior with some of his trophies, circa 1912