findThe Cordilleran mummies
Apo Anno and the hanging coffins, from the 13th century
about 1,200 – 1,500 · Oldest surviving examples from the 13th century
What it is
Mummified Cordilleran people in cave and hanging-coffin burials, tattooed, with the designs also carved on the coffins.
The long version
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.
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.
Connected to
- Cordilleran whatok The tradition.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Batok — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Batok — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there