In most cases, women plant and harvest rice and also specialize in establishing and maintaining traditional “seed banks‟ for the types of rice that passed the preferential taste of the locals. Special rice seeds were stored in small rattan woven containers. Translocal trade of rice varieties was often practiced in the highland villages making people store several types of rice varieties from which they choose for their needs during the planting seasons. Some villages continue growing traditional rice varieties with distinct rice rituals with the aid of objects now found in this collection.
Text: Prof. Dr. Leah Abayao