While the study of funerary artifacts can give us so much information about past societies, the practice also brings up questions of ethics, remembering that these burials were not initially meant to be disturbed by future societies.

― Patricia Panganiban

We hope that this article starts a series of conversations on reasons why these grave markers were taken by collectors in the 1970s – 1980s from their original communities, and to begin asking questions if this is something one should collect.

Follow Museo ng Nayong Pilipino on Instagram, a collaborative space for generating critical dialogues on the NPF ethnographic collection and rich cultural heritage of the Philippines.

---

WATCH: Umpukan sa Nayon: No Object Unturned