Cagayan valley group

• Cagayan valley indigenous community

  Bugkalit (Ilongot), Gaddang, ibanag, ibatan, Isinay, itawes, itbayaten, kalinga, malaweg yogad
• Cagayan valley -Speaks Ibanagic Languages
• Bugkalot(Ilongot) -known as head hunters
• Common characteristics of Cagayan Valley groups

  -Speaks Ibanagic Languages -Dominantly Christians -Relatively high degree of acculturation
• Bugkalot men love hunting wild animals and fish while women are in charge in plant cultivation.​
• Traditionally an animistic people with different names for their gods: in the field he is called

  ioma” (god in the field/farm), in the water “pi-ngit“, on the ground “idegin“, in the forest “igongot” and
• Houses of Gaddangs are often elevated and supported with wood or bamboo, with removable ladders.​
• Gaddang people Darker complexions compared to other groups
• Unique art of Gaddang,

  basket weaving, backstrap loom weaving, headgear weaving, and fishnet weaving.
• Ibanags tend to be taller in stock and have a peculiar height on the bridge of their noses
• Ibanag Believe in two classes of ethereal spirits.

  Ancestral spirits Souls of dead relatives (liminikug)
• They performed Ballauan, a song ritual that is appealing to the anitos to bless newlyweds with good health.​


  Ibanag
• Mangakkit, the last piece of advice through song and dance


  Ibanag
• Mattakilala, a means to exorcise the spirit of sickness or problems.


  Ibanag
• Ibatan people partly influenced by the environmental condition of Batanes.
• Unlike the old-type nipa huts common in the Philippines, Ivatans have adopted their now-famous stone houses made of coral and limestone, designed to protect against the hostile climate.
• The sea is vital to the Ivatan’s way of life.
• Endemic clothing of the Ivatans is the vakul. ​
• A vakul is a headgear designed, a fiber from voyavoy palm
• Isinay formerly known as Inmeas and Malaates
• Isinay formerly known as

  Inmeas and Malaates
• Isinay

  Indigenous of Nueva Viscaya Area.
• Itawit or itawes, i- meaning “people of” and tawid or “across the river”.
• Isinay -Their language is classified as a “severely endangered language”
• The indigenous farming systems of the Isinay were both wet agriculture, with the use of an irrigation system and kaingin (slash-and-burn or swidden) cultivation.
• Mappatolu is a ritual to drive away evil spirits from the body of a deceased person, to cleanse illness, or to prevent someone from any sickness until today.
• Itawes -Similar to that of the Ibanag, but they tend to live away from urban centers in small settlements.
• Malaweg tribe Ueg or weg means fresh water and Mala means bad
• The Itawes are also gatherers of freshwater shellfish,
• The Malaweg live in sections of Cagayan and Kalinga-Apayao provinces and in the town of Rizal.
• The Itawes in Iguig town are known to be ‘Minabbanga’ or potters
• Only a ‘balu’ or widow called Minattolu can perform the ritual ( Mappatolu).
• Their main crops are lowland rice and corn. Tobacco was raised as a cash crop.

  Malaweg tribe
• Some of the major beliefs includes pregnant woman should undergo paddal if she suffers from unexplainable discomfort; serve walin for their dead relatives whom they believe are witnessing the delivery; burning of braided cloth known as amlang to drive evil spirits 


  Malaweg tribe
• The Yogads have only a small Christian population and was originally animists
• Tobacco – principal product .
• Tobacco – principal product


  Yogad
• Agriculture – source of livelihood and Fond of hunting.

  Yogad
• Corn – important food
• They live in houses made of wood like bamboo and roof thatched with leaves.

  Yogad