Mandeko Kito: Barrel Man
source: Mandeko Kito (FB Page) source: Wikipedia The Barrel Man Growing up as a Tagalog (Bulacan) and around my very religious grandmother, seeing Baguio's Barrel Man displayed in our sala brings the feeling of discomfort and hiya (shame). My brothers see it as a laughing matter, but I never really got the joke growing up. I remember hiding this souvenir whenever my classmates and neighbors would visit our house in Bulacan because they would usually play with it, especially the boys. It's not until my MA in History that I got interested in arts and crafts. It is only then that I understand that the Baguio's Barrel Man shows more than a Phallic surprise but also the Igorot's craftsmanship, specifically the Ifugaos. Barrel Man is a wooden sculpture that originally uses Mahogany, it features two faces; a man in a barrel and a man and his penis. There are different theories of its history and origin, some of it are the following: From the Ijuander Documentary - In a