{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "cordilleran-mummies",
 "type": "find",
 "names": {
  "name": "The Cordilleran mummies",
  "said": "Apo Anno and the hanging coffins, from the 13th century"
 },
 "region": [
  "island-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "era": "ancient"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1200,
  "to": 1500,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Oldest surviving examples from the 13th century"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Mummified Cordilleran people in cave and hanging-coffin burials, tattooed, with the designs also carved on the coffins.",
  "story": "A Kankanaey mummy known as Apo Anno, 700 to 900 years old, is marked even on the soles of the feet and the fingertips. The tattoos are individualised: a woman's arms, a man's whole body.\n\n*Inference —* when the coffin carries the same patterns as the body, the design set is doing more than decorating a person. It identifies them, to whoever opens the coffin."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ร่างมัมมี่ชาวคอร์ดิลเยราในถ้ำและโลงแขวน มีรอยสัก และลายเดียวกันถูกแกะไว้บนโลง"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "kalinga-cordillera",
   "as": "The tradition.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-batok"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-batok"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "archaeology"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": []
}