RPH - LESSON 23

• Indigenous Practices 


  practices of the people living in the same community and share common culture.
• Indigenous Practices 


  Practices that is distinct from the other group and pass on from generation to generation
• Indigenous Practices


  practices of the people deeply rooted from their culture which includes ways of doing something from womb to tomb
• Ancient Filipinos

  were living in one community with their houses made of wood, bamboo, roofed with nipa palm leaves.
• Ancient Filipinos

  Some Filipinos built their house in the top of the tree for better protection against their enemy (as Bagobo and Kalingas).
• Ancient Filipinos

  Some were living in the caves, like “Dawn Man” – cave man or the Tabon man in Palawan
• Mode of Dressing

  Bahag is a strip of cloth worn by men which is wrapped around his waist and in between the legs, and a piece of cloth called “turban” which was wound around his head instead of hat.
• Mode of Dressing

  Women wore “baro” – wide-sleeved jacket worn by women, and “Patadyong” – a piece of cloth, which they wrapped about their waists and let, fall to their feet.
• NATURAL COURTESY AND POLITENESS

  When two person of equal rank met on the road, they have to remove their turban as a sign of courtesy
• NATURAL COURTESY AND POLITENESS

  Removing of turban and put it on the left shoulder like a towel and bowed low with the word po which is equivalent to “sir” if he addressed to his superior
• Body Ornaments

  Filipinos tattooed their body of various design representing animals, birds, flowers, and geometric figures to enhance their body beauty and to show their war record, the more a warrior had killed in battle the more tattooed he was.
• Both men and women inserted gold between their teeth as an ornament.
• Endogamy 


  to marry of the same rank, or same category or tribe.
• Marriage Customs

  Before the marriage, the groom gave a “dowry” or “bigay kaya” to the family of the bride, it consisted of gold, land, slaves and anything else of value
• Aside from the dowry, the groom had to work in the house of the girl for a certain period of time, carried water and firewood to the house, assist in plowing the field, planting and in the harvesting
• Burial and Mourning 


  Filipinos were taking care of burying their dead, thus it embalmed and buried amidst deep sorrow near his home, in a cave, or on a headland overlooking the sea.
• Burial and Mourning 


  Clothes, foods, weapons, wares and sometimes slaves buried with the dead.
• Ancient Filipinos believed in god and goddesses and the supreme God the creator of heaven and earth called “Bathala”.
• They also worship nature – rivers, mountains, old trees, crocodiles and fields that inhabited with spirits.
• They also worship ancestral spirits called anitos (Tagalog) diwatas (Visayan)
• Magnito 


  to offer sacrifices to the anitos or diwatas
• Katalona or babaylan

  the priest of priestess who made the ritual of sacrifices to the anitos or diwatas
• Katalona or babaylan


  communicates the spirits of their ancestors for guidance.
• Katalona or babaylan


  He or she communicates also the dwelling spirits for protection of their crops and during harvest time he will also offer thanksgiving to the spirits for good harvest.
• Like people of Ifugao, they refrain from cutting century-old endemic trees such as dipterocarps because they believe that these trees harbour the spirits of their ancestors; and
• Before cutting old trees, a shaman or baylan locally known as mumbaki conduct rituals to seek the permission of their ancestors.
• Though indigenous practices or cultural practices of the people were handed down from generation to generations, but it goes to the process of change. Since culture of the people is dynamic, changes may happen and it is inevitable for it is said that the only constant in this world is “change”. May some of those practices was lost and replace by a new one.