Bulul Guardian Sculpture from Ifugao Province
Bulul, also known as tinagtaggu, is a type of wooden sculpture which is used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao people of northern Luzon. Ifugao's sub-tribe Kalanguya has same culture too. The sculptures represent their ancestors and to gain power from the presence of the ancestral spirit. Certain Ifugao people are particularly skilled in carving bulul.