The Philippines Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
Tiklaw Restoring Heritage, Reliving the Games of the Indigenous Peoples. Tiklaw is one of the traditional sports and games demonstrated during the Kapangan, Benguet leg of PSC’s Indigenous Peoples Games program in 2018. This game tests the player’s precision and control. It is played by removing one stick from the other piled sticks one by … Read more
Boaioaq (bo-yo-wa) is a brass mortar used in pounding condiments such as palapa, a spicy mixture consisting of thinly chopped white scallions and ginger, turmeric, chili, and toasted grated coconut. This boaioaq forms part of the National Ethnographic Collection of the National Museum of the Philippines from the Maranao of Lanao del Sur in the … Read more
Beautiful! These colorful handwoven food covers are called ‘turong dulang’ and ‘tutup’ by the Sama and Tausug groups in Mindanao. Turong dulang is a dome-shaped cover with a basket decorated with colored geometric woven designs of buri strips. It has a loop attached to the lid and strings on both sides of the basket to … Read more
For this week’s Larong Pinoy, Museum From Home series, the National Museum of the Philippines features another recreational activity popular among Filipino children—the spinning top locally known as bowwot/bawwot (Ifugao), agngan/singgan (Isneg), kasing (Molbog), pansil/pasil (Batak and Tagbanua), betig (Maranao and Maguindanao), and trumpo/turumpo (Tagalog/Filipino). Spinning tops became widespread across cultures through trade. Playing with … Read more
Tigkiw na Saday (Casiguran, Sorsogon) The National Museum of the Philippines, this week, features the prehistoric jar burials from the Little Tigkiw Site, a burial site locally known as “Tigkiw na Saday” in the Municipality of Casiguran, Province of Sorsogon. In 1978, a National Museum of the Philippines archaeology team led by Dr. Eusebio Dizon … Read more