Jahazeil Joy T.

Sahisa BSBA FM 1C
IS101 – Bukidnon Cultural Studies

Chapter 2: Heritage of Bukidnon

L earning Outcomes

At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:

a. explain the important characteristics of natural, intangible,
built, and movable heritage
b. gather natural, intangible, built, and movable heritage of
Bukidnon through key informant interview
c. create a promotional booklet of a specific heritage of
Bukidnon

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Introduction
This chapter offers you an avenue to explore and to appreciate the heritage of
Bukidnon such as the natural, intangible, built, and movable heritages. Heritage in
this context includes features belonging to the culture of the province of Bukidnon
that include traditions, languages, physical environment, or buildings that embody
historical or cultural importance. On the other hand, this chapter also fosters
opportunity for you to showcase the heritage present in your own community,
may it be either inside or outside the said province.

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LOOKING BACK
Activity 5. Autobiography

Instructions: Sketch, draw, or paste a cut out picture of the topics found in the boxes and
explain how important or valuable it is using the spaces provided (20pts).

My Favorite Biological or Natural Resource

Importance/Value:
Maria Cristina is nothing like the ordinary. Not only does it
boast its glorious beauty, but it is also very valuable to the locals
there. The 320-foot waterfall has a strong current that has been estimated to
have a capacity of around 200 megawatts that supplies 70% of Mindanao's
electricity.

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My Favorite Activity/Occasion

Kaamulan

Importance/Value:
“Kaamulan” is from the Binukid word “amul” which means “to gather”. It
is a gathering of Bukidnon tribespeople for a purpose. It can mean a datuship
ritual, a wedding ceremony, a thanksgiving festival during harvest time, a
peace pact, or all of these put together.

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My Favorite Human-made Structure

Giant Ear of Corn

Importance/Value:
The giant unsheathed ear of corn towering towards the sky as an obelisk
is a homage to Corn, the town’s major crop, and to the thousands of its farmers
who have grown this versatile plant throughout the whole year in almost 50%
of the town’s arable land. Each of the 15 rows of the kernels on the giant
corncob stands for all the barangays that comprise the town and their
residents whose passionate bond with the land has produced abundant corn
harvests and enriched its populace’s agricultural heritage.

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My Favorite Item

Importance/Value:
This native bracelets are made of a vine indigenous to that area. The vine
is dried and then woven into traditional design of the Bagobo Tribe. These
rear and extraordinary bracelets can get wet but won’t mildew, are long lasting
and are authentically exotic. Having one of these bracelets is like having a
piece of tribal life from the island.

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UNLOCKING
Activity 6. Identifying natural, intangible, built, and movable heritage
Instructions: Read and analyze the following heritage below. Identify each heritage
whether natural, intangible, built, or movable. Write your answer on the space provided
before each number (20pts).

Natural 1. Mt. Kitanglad

Built 2. Bukidnon Provincial Zoological Park
Intangible 3. Street dancing
Movable 4. Tangkulo(indigenous man’s headwear)
Built 5. Kaamulan Open Theater
Natural 6. Golden shower or golden trumpet
Natural 7. Rafflesia (a kind of flower)
Built 8. San Isidro Labrador Cathedral
Movable 9. BukSU school uniform
Movable 10. Bukidnon provincial flag
Natural 11. Lake Apo
Natural 12. Atugan falls
Built 13. Malaybalay old city hall
Built 14. Overview of Quezon, Bukidnon
Intangible 15. Pamahandi (a thanksgiving ritual)
Intangible 16. Panalawahig (a ritual done to appease the guardian of the water)
Intangible 17. “Kanak Ha Banuwa” (the Bukidnon provincial hymn)
Intangible 18. Binukid (an indigenous language)
Intangible 19. Socio-political structure of the Indigenous Peoples
Built 20. School of the living tradition (an indigenous school building)

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MOUNTING
HERITAGE
These are features belonging to the culture of a particular society which
include traditions, languages, physical environment, or buildings that embody
historical or cultural importance.

Natural heritage includes

NASULI SPRING features that are formed through
physical and biological
processes, consonant to what is
known and accepted universally.
They conform to the value based
on the aesthetic or scientific
perspectives. It may also stress
the significance of geological
Courtesy: Google Photos
and physiographical formations
that display the beauty of nature
through divine and natural phenomena. Also, natural heritage are physical and
physiographical entities that entail historical significance, and that constitute as
habitat of endangered species of animals and plants.
Source: https://globalpact.informea.org/glossary/natural-heritage

Built heritage include all features of

MONASTERY OF TRANSFIGURATION
historical environments made by
human hands such as houses,
factories, commercial buildings,
places of worship, cemeteries, and
monuments. This also includes built
infrastructure such as roads,
railways and bridges, and physically
created places such as gardens,
mining sites and stock routes. Built
Courtesy: Google Photos
heritage present in our locale today
are the physical evidences of our development on culture. Also, our built heritage is one
of our most important cultural assets, and it helps us to understand and appreciate our
origin, history, and even identity. It also allows us to keep our connection with the past.
Source: http://modernheritage.com.au/mhm/understand_heritage/what-is-built-heritage/

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Movable heritage is either a

AGUNG natural or manufactured
object with historical and
cultural significance which
mostly belong to cultural
groups or communities. It
provides historical
information about people’s
experiences, ways of life and
relationships with the
environment. Also, it
Courtesy: Google Photos prompts a particular
group of people to remember
experiences and reflect
family and community histories. Also, it is portable, easily sold, relocated or thrown
away during changes of ownership, fashion or use, and is vulnerable to loss, damage,
theft, dispersal and disposal, often before its heritage significance is appreciated and
before people’s migration memories are recorded.
Source: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Heritage/aboutheritage/movableheritage.htm

According to UNESCO,
intangible heritage includes KAAMULAN FESTIVAL
traditions or living
expressions inherited from
the ancestors of particular
group of people and passed
on to their descendants, such
as oral traditions, performing
arts, social practices, rituals,
festive events, knowledge
and practices concerning
nature and the universe or
Courtesy: Google Photos
the knowledge and skills to
produce traditional crafts.
While fragile, intangible
cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of
growing globalization. An understanding of the intangible cultural heritage of different
communities helps with intercultural dialogue, and encourages mutual respect for other
ways of life.
Source: https://ich.unesco.org/en/what-is-intangible-heritage-00003

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ASSESSING
Assessment 2. Diagramming
Instructions: Identify and list at least 5 natural, intangible, built, and movable heritages
that you can find in your own community. Write them in the diagram below (20pts).

HERITAGE

Natural Intangible Built Movable

1. Lake Apo 1. Ulaging Epic of 1. Kaamulan 1. Agung

2. Nasuli Spring the Talaandig Nature Park 2. Pulala
3. Impasug-ong Manobo 2. Transfiguration 3. Kudyapi
Dila Falls 2. Kaamulan Monastery 4. Panika
4. Blue Water Festival 3. Paminahawa 5. Tangkulo
Cave, 3. Dugsu Ridge
Maramag 4. Pangampo 4. Giant Ear of
5. Matin-Ao 5. Pamahandi Corn
Cold Spring 5. Dahilayan Park

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Assessment 3. Localized Cultural Heritage Mapping

Instructions: Conduct a cultural mapping in your own community through key
informant interview to provide the information being asked in the template below. Your
informant should be a member of the family or of the community whom you think can
provide the needed information (20pts).
A. Sociology students you may ask on gender roles, domestic labour, relationships within the family
and socio-political structure/datuship
B. Public Administration students, you may explore on their governance and politics, , justice
system, conflict resolution mechanisms and customary laws
Local name/title: Pag-uma Participants: Bevone Ellacone
Common name/title: Farming Season: Dry and wet season

Description (includes outstanding features):

Its job is to take care of the plant and harvest it afterwards. Because nature is the co-
worker of this, it depends on the climate and area on what should be planted. It needs
enough knowledge of farming and ability to detect the impact of climate and insects on
the harvest of agricultural products. Its important to think that planting requires
perseverance and patience to heal and learn from mistakes, because of this, farmers has
learned proper crop care over the years. It gave great contribution to society for food
production, but few of them know the importance of this work.

Cultural or historical significance:

Farming is not merely a source of livelihood but a way of life. It is the main source of
food, fodder and fuel. It is the basic foundation of economic development. Farming
doesn’t discriminate gender or sex, no matter if a farmer is a woman or a man, as long
can persevere under the heat of the sun and cultivate the plants. Our ancestors have
lived and survived because of cultivating plants and hunting animals. For children,
their parents have become the prime example on how to survive in the sunny fields.
The indigenous people had lived by farming, cultivating and hunting. Undoubtedly,
without farmers we won’t have food or rice to eat, which is why farmers are one of the
most important labor resource in the world.

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Vocabularies (local terms and meaning):

Daruhan - the agricultural land used in farming
Nagdaro - plowing the soil with the accompany of animals specifically a cow,
carabao or a horse
Namugas - Planting seeds of crop plants
Nananggi - Harvesting the crop plants
Binh i- The seeds used for planting in a agricultural land
Abono - the fertilizer used to make the crops grow bigger and healthier.
Puay - another method of planting specifically steep areas.

Process/Mechanics (how it works or how it is done):

Corn and rice are one of the most important staple crops in our community.
- A field of corn began as seeds, three to five days after the seeds are planted in
the soil, the first leaves of the corn break through the dirt. During the next three
to four weeks, more leaves appear as the stalk grows taller.
- Rice looks like long grass as it grows, in fact the rice plant is actually a type of
grass. Rice grows in wide flooded fields, to prepare a rice field planting, the
farmers first flood the fields with water. Rice seeds can be planted in the
flooded by hand.
- Corn is ready to be harvested when the kernels have achieved the proper
moisture and sweetness, it is usually harvested by a group of farmers with the
use of itak. Rice is harvested with the use of machine, the rice stalks would be
cut and shot through the machine into a holding container.
- When the harvesting is done, they will contract a milling machine to get
the seeds and dried it out in an open area. A new set of laborers will be
hired again to work with the drying procedure. If the weather is sunny
then it will only takes 2-3 days to deliver in an establishment who buys
corn. This is where owners are paid from their hard work.

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(sketch, draw, or paste cut-out pictures or any representations of the selected activity here)
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DRIVING FORWARD
Activity 7. Promotional Booklet Making
Instructions: After your localized cultural heritage mapping, compile all the information
you got. This compilation requires you to generate a promotional booklet. Your booklet
will be rated based on the rubric below (12+3=15pts).

Category Outstanding (3) Satisfactory (2) Poor (1)

Presents intensive
discussion and
specifications of heritage
per category i.e. historical
Content and cultural significance,
description, oral
traditions, and other
analogous relevant
elements.
Displays images and other
graphic presentations that
neither discriminate nor
Culture
devalue a cultural group;
Sensitivity images and languages
depict appropriation on a
cultural group.
Exhibits sufficient
evidences that pieces of
information are obtained
Authenticity from a reliable and an
authentic concerned
group of people (i.e.
documentation).
Shows creative and well-
conceptualized graphics
Styles and
and layout; graphical
Formats
elements enhance the
significance of the content.
Presents less intensive
Fails to present intensive
discussion and
discussion and
specifications of heritage
specifications of heritage
per category; some
per category; most of the
important elements are
important elements are
not well-presented and
not provided.
discussed (see rating 3).
Fails to display images
Displays few images that and other graphic
discriminate a specific presentations that neither
indigenous group; few discriminate nor devalue
images and languages do a cultural group; most of
not depict appropriation the images and languages
about a specific cultural do not depict
group. appropriation on a
cultural group.
Exhibits somewhat
Fails to exhibit sufficient
sufficient evidences that
evidences that pieces of
pieces of information are
information are obtained
obtained from a reliable
from a reliable and an
and an authentic
authentic concerned
concerned group of
group of people (i.e.
people (i.e.
documentation).
documentation).
Shows somewhat
Fails to show creative and
creative and well-
well-conceptualized
conceptualized graphics
graphics and layout;
and layout but graphical
graphical elements do not
elements enhance the
enhance the significance
significance of the
of the content.
content.

Total Score: __________

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