The Kankanaey believe that death separates the soul of a person, the anito, from the body. They hang the coffins in high places such as mountain cliffs in order to help the anito more easily join the domain of the ancestral spirits.
The Kankanaey believe that death separates the soul of a person, the anito, from the body. They hang the coffins in high places such as mountain cliffs in order to help the anito more easily join the domain of the ancestral spirits.