The Philippines Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
This is tinagak or knotted pineapple fiber. This is used in weaving piña cloth. Red Spanish pineapple leaves can grow to approximately one to two meters in length in 1.5 to 2 years. The extracted and cleaned fiber are knotted to form a continuous thread ready for weaving. Visit the Habol Panay textile gallery when … Read more
Laguna Copperplate Inscription In 1989, Ernesto Legisma, a man from Lumban Laguna found an uncovered blackened roll of metal while he was dredging sand at the Lumbang River in Wawa Barangay near Laguna De Bay. He offered the copperplate to one of the antique dealers in the area and the dealer eventually sold it to … Read more
PDIC urges creditors of the closed Rural Bank of San Nicolas Pangasinan, Inc. to file their claims against the bank’s assets on or before 11 April 2022. Claims may be filed either through e-mail at nicolas-pad@pdic.gov.ph, by mail, or personally on appointment basis. You may want to read: Opportunity Kauswagan Bank Rural Bank of Nabunturan
Philippine pangolin from Sunda pangolin distinguished The Philippine pangolin was only recently described as a species distinct from the Sunda pangolin. It has the greatest number of scale rows across its back of all Asian pangolins. It can be distinguihed from the Sunda pangolin by its smaller scales and s shorter head and body to … Read more
Neolithic Artifacts of the Batanes Islands For this week’s Trowel Tuesday, The National Museum of the Philippines is featuring the Neolithic artifacts of the Batanes Islands. The Neolithic Period in Southeast Asia is described as a transition from hunter-gatherer population to village farmers. In the Philippines, the Neolithic Period is estimated to be about 4500 … Read more