| Ceremonial textile and shroud [kunuttiyan]  Isinai people
traded to Ifugao people, Luzon, Philippines  Ceremonial textile
and shroud [kunuttiyan] 19th-early 20th century 257.0 (h) x
156.0 (w) cm KIT Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam   In recent centuries,
costly and prestigious warp ikat textiles were woven by the
Isinai people and traded to the Ifugao for use at funerals and
as shrouds. While warp ikat was made in the past by Ifugao
women, by the 20th century it was no longer used to create the
culture’s most important ritual textile, the shroud in which the
deceased is wrapped for the journey into the afterlife. The
oldest known burial cloth, found on the island of Banton,
features ikat designs, archaeological evidence that textiles
decorated in the resist technique have long been used to wrap
the dead in the Philippines.  The bold white hook-shaped motifs
in the central field have been likened to anthropomorphic
figures. Given that this textile type was used in funerary
rites, these highly stylised forms possibly