TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY ARTS

Isabela, Region 2- Cagayan Valley

DESCRIPTION W/ ORIGIN ARTIST/S SIGNIFICANCE
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TRADITIONAL ART
FORMS
1. Vakul Batanes Ivatan Natives The vakul head dress
shades farmers from
the rays of the sun
and is waterproof
providing shelter from
rain.
Vakul is a head dress
made of vuyavuy palm
fiber, worn by Ivatan
farmers.
2. Bakwat Nueva Vizcaya Gaddang Weavers Bakwat is a belt used
by Gaddang mothers
after giving birth to
help with their pain
and healing.
Bakwat is a belt made of
white beads as accents
and patterns of rivers and
mountains with bead
works on the central
portion of the cloth.
3. San Matias Tumauini, Isabela Domingo Forto and The Church of
Parish Antonio Herrera Tumauini is one of the
Church/ proudest treasures
Tumauini that Isabela has. The
Church National Historical
Commission of the
Philippines declared
Tumauini Church is a 17th
Tumauini Church a
century-baroque style
National Historic
architecture. It is made
Landmark on
entirely of ornately
February 24, 1989.
designed red bricks in its
facade and its interior
walls.