TRADITIONAL ARTS

• TRADITIONAL ARTS:

  Ethnomedicine

  Folk Architecture

  Maritime Transport

  Weaving

  1. Cloth and Mat Weaving
  2. Basketry

  Carving

  1. Wood Carving
  2. Stone, Ivory, and other Carvings

  Folk Performing Arts

  Folk Literature

  Folk Graphic and Plastic Arts

  1. Folk Writing (Calligraphy)
  2. Folk Drawing and Painting

  Martial Arts

  Culinary Arts
• Ethnomedicine


  The art of albularyo, manghihilot, and babaylan. This art encompasses traditions (and objects) associated with it that are performed by medical artisans and shamans.
• Ethnomedicine


  Originated from art known to natives and ancient science
• Ethnomedicine


  Practiced based on physical elements
• Ethnomedicine


  Tradition involves emotional, mental, and spiritual techniques complemented with herbal remedies
• Psycho-spiritual practice


  One of the most notable ethnomedicine arts in the country
• Folk Architecture


  • Each ethnic group has a significantly different folk architecture, it can either be made out of wood, coral, rock, bamboo, grass, rattan, and other materials
• Folk Architecture


  • Huts (bahay-kubo)
  • Highland houses called bale that has four to eight sides
  • Corral houses in Batanes
  • Torogan, an intricately engraved okir motif
  • Daru Jambangan or Palace of Flowers at Sulu
  • Spirit houses, shrines for the protective gods and spirits
  • Bahay na bato architecture
• The rice terraces clusters of Banggaan, Mayoyao, Batad, Hungduan, and Nagacadan are declared as World Heritage Sites
• Maritime Transport


  Maritime traditions, boat house, and boat-making
• The earliest evidence of boat-making and use of boat in the country was 320 AD which are said to be the remains of balangay from Butuan
• Weaving


  An ancient form of art that is present in the country up to this day
• Types of weaving

  • Headgear weaving
  • Fishnet weaving
  • Basket weaving
  • Back-strap loom weaving
• Materials used in weaving

  • Cotton
  • Abaca
  • Grass
  • Banana
  • Palm fiber
• Weaved cloths

  • Pinilian
  • Inata-ata
  • Piña
  • Hablon
• Basketry


  The basket weaving in the country is directed to a particular purpose, it can be for rice storage, harvesting, sword case, travel package and so on
• Materials used in basketry


  • Bamboo
  • Pandan
  • Rattan
  • Nito
  • Cotton cloth tassel
  • Abaca
  • Beeswax
  • Bark
  • Dyes
  • Buri
• Carving


  Wood carving and folk non-clay sculptures
• Wood Carving


  One of the most notable arts in the country where some of the found crafts dates back before the arrival of Hispanic colonizers
• Wood Carving


  • Divine wooden statues
  • Bulul
• Stone, Ivory, and other Carvings


  Prized arts in the country that prevailed even before the arrival of colonizers from the west
• Stone Carvings


  • Laruan or tao-tao
  • Burial urns in the Cotabato region
  • Stone grave marks with okir motif in Tawi-tawi
• The Philippines is the first country in the entire world to destroy its ivory stock as an act against the illegal trade of ivory which has devastated the rhino and elephant population
• Folk Performing Arts


  Dramas, plays, and folk dances
• Folk Dramas

  • Hinilawod
  • Ibalong
  • Senakulo
• Folk (Oral) Literature


  Includes the epics, songs, myths, and other oral literature of numerous ethnic groups in the Philippines
• Philippine Poetry


  Full of metaphor and high in form
• Philippine Poetry


  • Tanaga
  • Awit
  • Dalit
  • Ambahan
  • Balagtasan
• Many of the folk literature have been a catalyst in shaping people's way of life, thinking, a basis for our values, and traditions
• Folk Graphic and Plastic Arts


  Tattooing, folk drawing, folk writing, and painting
• Folk Writing (Calligraphy)


  The country has various indigenous scripts which has their respective style and forms of calligraphy
• Folk Drawing and Painting


  Representation of the culture of the people who drew such painting
• Folk Drawing


  • Rock drawings and engravings in Angono, Rizal
  • Symbol of fertility in Alab, Bontoc
  • Petrographs in Peñablanca, Cagayan
  • Singanpan in southern Palawan
  • Anda, Bohol
• Tattooing


  Introduced by Austronesian ancestors a thousand of years ago, developed cultural symbols
• Martial Arts


  Weapon-based fighting styles and unarmed martial arts
• Culinary Arts


  Composed of more than a hundred ethnolinguistic groups within the archipelago, evolved from Austronesian origins to a mix of Chinese, Spanish, Indian, and American influences
• Folk Literature

  Full of metaphor and high in form, these are the attributes of Philippine poetry.
• The Tanaga has 7777 syllable count per line, rhyme range from dual form to free style.
• Awit consists of twelve syllable quatrains, example of this is the Pasyon which is recounted in the Pabasa. Another notable example of awit is Florante at Laura (1838).
• The Dalit is an eight-syllable poem for all four lines