NAME: Julie Ann R.

Soberano
COURSE: BEED -1B
SUBJECT: Arts Appreciation
PROFESSOR: Jayson Rodillas

PHILIPPINE ARTS AND TRIVAL ARTIFACTS

A bulul, also known as tinagtagu is a carved wooden figure used to guard the
rice crop by the Ifugao (and their sub tribe Kalanguya) peoples of northern Luzon.
The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestors, and are thought to
gain power from the presence of the ancestral spirit. The Ifugao are particularly
noted for their skill in carving bululs.
Bulul are used in ceremonies associated with rice production and with
healing. The bulul is treated with care and respect to avoid the risk of the spirits of
the ancestors bringing sickness. Bulul is important to Ifugao because they believed
they can protect and multiply the rice and help make the harvest abundant.
NAME: Shiela Mae Regualos
COURSE: BEED -1B
SUBJECT: Arts Appreciation
PROFESSOR: Jayson Rodillas

MANUNGGUL JAR

One of the Philippines cultural treasure and early pre colonial artwork is the Manunggul
jar, that was found in March 1964 in Manunggul cave in Lipuun point Quezon, Palawan by Victor
Decalan, Hans Kasten and several volunteer workers from the United States peace corps and
archaeologist from the National Museum. Believed to be a burial sites, the Manunggul jar that was
discovered with many other jars, is a secondary burial jar that dates back to the late Neolithic
period around 890-710 BC.
As a secondary burial jar, the Manunggul jar represents the importance of burial practices
and beliefs in the afterlife among early Filipinos in the secondary burial process the bones of the
deceased were place inside of a jar in a re-burial after the corps decomposed the bones were
cleaned, washed, then sometimes painted, before being placed in the jar where it was eventually
placed hidden in caves.
It is a symbol and archaeological evidence of the strong indigenous spirituality and beliefs
in pre colonial Philippines.