Mindoro

• Urukay means "merrymaking", a joyful social gathering with singing and dancing etc.
• Iraya-Mangyan are an indigenous group who safe guarded and continue the art of nito weaving
• • Ambahan - they wrote and carved their chants in bamboo laths using any pointed and sharp objects
• The Ambahans were written on bamboos, which served as scrolls or books.
• • Ambahan - rhythmetic poetic expression with a meter of seven syllable lines