Formerly – List of Mountain Province Ethnographic Specimens

By: William Beyer

1. Clothing and Effects

Kalinga

Winittawit – Kalingga skirt with tassels of shell. Used by upper class Kalingga.

Baag – Kalingga G-String

Paowekan – Kalingga earrings from Mother of   Read More…..

THE IFUGAO: A MOUNTAIN PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES

The Gran Cordillera Central of Northern Luzon is a jumbled mass of lofty peaks and plummeting ravines, of small fecund valleys cleaved by rainfed, boulder-strewn rivers, and of silent, mist-shrouded, moss-veiled forests wherein orchids in their deathlike beauty unfold   Read More…..

Bontoc
by Christina Sianghio

“Bontoc” is derived from two morphemes “bun” (heap) and “tuk” (top), which taken together, means “mountains.” The term “Bontoc” now refers to the people of the Mountain Province used to consist of five subprovinces created during the Spanich period: Benguet, Ifugao, Bontoc, Apayao and Kalinga.   Read More…..

THE IGOROTS OF LUZON

The word IGOROT is a Tagalog word for “mountain people” and denotes the inhabitants of the mountains of northern Luzon. Like the word Moro, Igorot had a derogatory connotation implying backwardness and cultural inferiority. And like the word Moro, it has become a source of pride to its members –   Read More…..

Carlos Romulo – ” Igorot is not Filipino”
 
Candy Pangilinan – “Tao po ako, hindi po ako Igorot.”
 
Baguio ex-Mayor Ramon Labo, Jr. – We will not lose (the elections) to those Igorots. They urinate anywhere . . . that is why we club them. . . . The Igorots are traitors. They are civil in   Read More…..

Original Title: IGOROT…Mountain People by Basho Fat Sumo/2006

Basho Fat Sumo

For almost four centuries since the 1500s when Spain occupied the Philippines, in spite of superior weapons of war, the Spaniards were unable to completely subjugate these mountain people. This Spanish failure of conquest resulted in Spain’s failure to control the famed Central Cordillera’s rich natural   Read More…..