Bulul

Bulul, also known as bu-lul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao (and their sub-tribe Kalanguya) people of northern Luzon.

The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestors and are thought to gain power and wealth from the presence of the ancestral spirit.

[5] Although the form varies, the bulul is commonly represented as seated on the ground, with arms crossed over his upraised knees.

The bulul is touched by hands dipped in the blood of a chicken or pig in a ritual called tunod during the rice planting season.

[9] Some of the carvers, such as Rey Paz Contreras, have become well-known artists, with their work exhibited and sold widely in the Western world.