ALANGAN

 Found within the municipalities of Naujan, Baco, San Teodoro, and Victoria in Oriental
Mindoro and in the municipality of Sablayan in Occidental Mindoro.

 The name Alangan was derived from the name of a river and mountain slopes in the
upper Alangan Valley.

 The Alangan Mangyans are medium built, round face with straight and long hair (both
men and women). Their complexion is dark and their teeth are blackened by betel but
chewing.

Clothing

Women:

 Traditionally wear a skirt, called lingeb. This is made of long strips of woven nito, and is
wound around the abdomen. This is worn together with the g-string called abayen.

 The upper covering is called ulango, made from the leaf of the wild buri palm.
Sometimes, a red kerchief called limbutong is worn over the ulango.

Men:

 Wear g-strings with fringes in front.

Economic

 Their economic life is primarily based on the upland agriculture or kaingin system. They
cut open the forest every year or two to make new swidden sites. 

 Traditionally, the kuyay (caretaker), an old man function only as a person who takes care
of seeds for swidden agriculture and as a priest at the agriculture rites.

Practices

 The transfer of some goods is made on the occasion of a wedding and the remaining
goods are inherited by only one of the children who remain in the family. 

 Nowadays, all the kuyay among the Alangan are forming some sort of kuyay association
called banada which functions to protect them from social, political and economic
danger from the christian lowlanders.
  Betel nut chewing is also noted among the Alangans, like all other Mangyan tribes. This
they chew with great fervor from morning to night, saying that they don't feel hunger as
long as they chew betel nut. Nonetheless, betel chewing has a social dimension.
Exchange of betel chew ingredients signifies social acceptance.

 Beyond observing the incest taboo, marriage restrictions, endogamy [Marriage within a
particular group in accordance with custom or law.] and exogamy [The custom of marrying
outside the tribe, family, clan, or other social unit.] are absent in Alangan society and the
selection of spouse is made freely. Divorce is not so common, but in cases of adultery,
concubinage and the wife's refusal to obey her husband's order, divorce is granted.  

Belief

 Ambuau carries this world/life. The other world/death is referred to as tuyungan and

believed to be located under the feet of Ambuau. A living person has one good soul
(abiyan) at the ringside of his body and one bad soul (bukao) at the left.

BANGON

 Found along the Bongabon river called Binagaw and the surrounding mountains located
within the municipalities of Bongabong, Bansud, and Gloria in Oriental Mindoro.

 The Bangon Mangyans have their own culture and language different from the other 6
major Mangyan tribes in Oriental Mindoro and also their writing system. Hence, the
Bangons have asserted that they be considered as the 7th major Mangyan tribe not as a
sub-tribe of the Tau-buid Mangyans.

 On March 28, 1996 in a meeting in Ogom Liguma together with Buhid Mangyans, they
decided to accept the word Bangon for their tribe.

TAU-BUID

 Known as pipe smokers and even children begin smoking at a young age.
 Standard dress for men and women is the loin cloth. In some areas close to the
lowlands, women wrap a knee-length cloth around their bark bra-string and men wear
cloth instead of bark. Bark cloth is worn by both men and women in the interior and is
also used for head bands, women's breast covers, and blankets. Cloth is made by
extracting, pounding and drying the inner bark of several trees. [Pennoyer, 1979]
 The Taubuid Mangyans are found within the municipalities of Socorro, Pinamalayan and
Gloria, but mostly they live in Occidental Mindoro.

BUHID
  The Buhids are known as pot makers. Other Mangyan tribes , like the Alangan and
Hanunoo Mangyans used to buy their cooking pots from the Buhids.

CLOTHES

 Buhid women wear woven black and white brassiers called linagmon and a black and
white skirt called abol. Unmarried women put body ornaments such as braided nito belt
(lufas), blue thread earrings, beaded headband (sangbaw), beaded bracelet (uksong),
and beaded long necklace (siwayang or ugot). The men wear g-strings. To enhance body
beauty, the men put ornaments like long beaded necklace, tight choker (ugot) and
beaded bracelet (uksong). Both sexes use an accessory bag called bay-ong for personal
things like comb and knife. [Litis,1989].
 Together with the Hanunoo-Mangyans the Buhids in some areas possess a pre-Spanish
syllabic writing system.
 The word Buhid literally means mountain dwellers. [Postma,1967]
 The Buhid Mangyans are found within the municipalities of Roxas, Bansud, Bongabong
and some parts of Mansalay in Oriental Mindoro, and in the municiplaities of San Jose
and Rizal in Occidental Mindoro.