GAMABA AWARDEES

• Salinta Monon 


  • Position: textile weaver
  • Location tabagawa bagibo, bansalan, davao del sur, 1998
  • died in 2009
• Alonzo Saclag


  • musician and dancer
  • kalinga master of dance and performing art
• Federico Caballero


  • epic chanter
  • sulod-bukidnon, calinog, iloilo
  • humandapon and labaw dunggan epics
• uwang ahadas


  • musician
  • yakan lamitan, basilan, 2000
  • mastered most important of the yakan musical instruments
• Daharta Sawabi


  • diead in 2005
  • tamsug parang, sulu, 2004
  • weacing traditional pis syabit
  • pis syabit - head covering by the tausug of jolo
• eduardo mutuc


  • metalsmith
  • kapampangan, apalit, pampanga, 2004
  • creating religious and secular art in silver, bronze, and wood
• Haja Amina Appi


  • mat weaver
  • died 2013
  • sama tanduhas, tawi-tawi, 2004
  • master mat weaver among the sama indigenous community of ungos matata
• Teofilo Garcia


  • casque makeer
  • Ilocano, san quintin, abra, 2012
  • created tabungaw
• magdalena gamayo


  • textile weaver
  • ilocano piili, ilocos norte, 2012
  • weaved traditonal patterns of binakol, inuritan, kusilos, sinan-sabong
• ambalang ausalin


  • textile weaver, 2016
  • born on march 4 1943
  • weaves the suwah bekkat (cross-stich-like embelishment)
  • weaves the suwah pendan (embroidery-like embelishment)
• Ginaw Bilog


  • 2003
  • poet
  • hanunuo mangyan, panatayan, oriental mindoro, 1993
• masino intaray

  • 2004
  • musician and storyteller
  • pala'wan brookes point, palawan, 1993
  • master of basal, kulilal, and bagit
  • poet, bard, musician
• samon sulaiman 


  • 2013
  • mama sa pano, maguindanao
  • 1993
• lang dulay


  • weaver
  • lake sebu, south cotabao, 1998
• ambahan


  a poetic literary form composed of seven-syllable lines to convey messagees through metaphores and images