Sua-ku-Sua

• The Tausugs compare the sua's sparse branches, amiable leaves, lovely fruits, and scented bloom to the characteristics of a lady in order to romanticize their extreme dependency on the pomelo tree.
• It motivates couples to sing in unison while flapping their white fans, each one mimicking the sound of rustling leaves as the wind moves through them in the sua-ku-sua dance.
• Due to their trading with nearby nations like China, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the warriors are also expert sailors.
• Some of these nations' influences were adopted by the Tausugs, who then incorporated them into their sua-ku-sua dance.
• The dancers, especially the female performers, plaster their faces with a thick layer of pulverized white rice flour, and add soot to their sideburns and eyebrows. Their attractiveness is enhanced by this.
• The sua-ku-sua dance uses imaginative motions as its props. The fans represent the little sails they used as sails when going on journeys.
• The dance sequence also includes motions that mimic butterflies, face mirrors, shields, and leaves.
• The dancers are decked up in necklaces, bracelets, gold or gold-like imitation earrings, and brooches.
• When performing, dancers wear no shoes.
• The Barawasi top dress for female is a traditional flowy blouse with long sleeves and a deep keyhole neckline. There are additional panels linked to the right and left chest and numerous small brass buttons on the extra panels. Chinese silk or cotton, either plain or printed, is used to make it.
• The Sawal or Kantiu for female is a pair of long Chinese pants with a broad waist and a 10-inch wide white band (coco curdo). One side of the white bands is placed on top of the other on the front and rolled out to make a belt. Any silky material, even inexpensive Chinese silk, can be used. The color palette can include shades of navy blue, yellow, red, green, and orange.
• Siyag (shoulder band) is a fine wrap-around malong piece that is slung from the right shoulder, crossed across the chest, and hung from the left side.
• There are three possible possibilities for this costume: tusuk (a lattice made of gold or brass), paper bills fastened to thin sticks, or a pasteboard cutout with a front tip that is 8 to 10 inches high and resembles a Chinese crown coated in gold foil.
• Bajo is a white shirt with a short waist and no neck that is open at the front with the right panel overlapping the left. It is embellished with small brass buttons. On the right side, this component is left loose. It is constructed of inexpensive cotton or silk from China.
• The Sawal or Kantiu for males are similar to the design of female pants but in a darker color and with bolder designs.
• The accessories for male can include money belt, sarok hat, pis sibaya (a rectangular handwoven scarf tied on the head or hung loosely over one shoulder, a wavy knife (kris), and a leaf knife (barong).
• The sua-ku-sua dance's rhythm has a    2/4 and 4/4 time signature. It is divided into three sections: A, B, and C.
• The musical instrument used to play three octaves of the pentatonic scale is the gabbang, a bamboo xylophone fashioned like a tiny boat.
• It includes counts of 1, 2, and 1, 2, 3, and 4 to measure the 2/4 and 4/4 time signatures, respectively.