MAKATI CITY (MindaNews / 23 June) – One of the promises I made to myself was fulfilled upon seeing the exquisite Surigao Treasures on June 2
The “Reuniting the Surigao Treasures” exhibit is the first time those treasures are all gathered together in one place in the Philippines. It is much larger than the joint exhibit in 2015 in New York City’s Asia Society Museum co-curated by Drs. Adriana Proser and Florina Capistrano-Baker. The latter is the curator for the Ayala Museum’s exhibit.
… The exhibit features a four-kilogram chain (Ayala Museum) reuniting with its pronged finial (BSP), woven waistbands with seven belts (BSP) meeting partial and complete sashes and buckles (Ayala Museum), and a balance scale (Ayala Museum) paired with a scale pan (BSP).
Other items the BSP is loaning to the museum include a 4.5-meter kamagi chain consisting of 12 connected necklaces, bangles with semi-precious stones, necklaces with suso beads, and more finials.
The exhibit, which will run until 2027, coincidentally begins with the 50th or golden anniversary of the Ayala Museum.
From left to right, top to bottom: (1) a 4-kilogram gold chain regalia; (2) a 91.5-cm long neck ornament weighing 812 grams; (3) a goblet weighing 41.9 grams with a height of 3.1 cm and a diameter of 7.8 cm. All MindaNews photo by Roel N. Catoto.
