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The GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG
BAYAN or “national living treasures” award
• Highest state honor given to a Filipino
artist
• Recognition of their outstanding work as
a traditional folk artist and to preserve
their artistic heritage--- works, skills,
and crafts
• As a group, these folk and traditional artists
reflect the diverse heritage and cultural
traditions that transcend their beginnings to
become part of our national character
• They bring old-age customs, crafts, crafts and
ways of living to the attention and
appreciation of Filipino life.
• They provide us with a vision of ourselves
and of our nation, a vision we might be able
to realize someday.
 How to
Become a
GAMABA
Awardee?
TO BECOME A “MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN”, THE
CANDIDATE MUST POSSESS THE FOLLOWING
QUALIFICATIONS:
A. He/she is an inhabitant of an
indigenous/traditional cultural community
anywhere in the philippines that has preserved
indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals and traditions
and/or has syncretized whatever external elements
that have influenced it.
B. He/she must have engaged in a folk art
tradition that has been in existence and
documented for at least fifty (50) years.
C. He/she must have consistently
performed or produced over a significant
period, works of superior and distinctive
quality.
D. He/she must possess a mastery of tools
and materials needed by the art, and must
have an established reputation in the art as
master and maker of works of extraordinary
technical quality.
E. He/she must have passed on and/or will
pass on to other members of the community
their skills in the folk art for which the
community is traditionally known.
A TRADITIONAL ARTIST WHO POSSESSES ALL THE
QUALITIES OF A MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN
CANDIDATE, BUT DUE TO AGE OR INFIRMITY HAS
LEFT HIM/HER INCAPABLE OF TEACHING FURTHER
HIS/HER CRAFT, MAY STILL BE RECOGNIZED IF:
A. He/she had created a significant body of works
and/or has consistently displayed excellence in the
practice of his/her art, thus achieving important
contributions for its development.
B. He/she has been instrumental in the
revitalization of his/her community’s artistic
tradition.
C. He/she has passed on to the other
members of the community skills in the folk
art for which the community is traditionally
known.
D. His/her community has recognized him/her
as master and teacher of his/her craft.
What are the incentives received by the awardee?
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• Specially designed gold medallion

• Initial grant of P100,000 and P10,000 monthly stipend for life
• In consonance with the provision of Republic Act No. 7355,
which states that “the monetary grant may be increased
whenever circumstances so warrant,”
• The NCCA board approved an additional monthly personal
• allowance of P14,000 for the awardees as well as a maximum
cumulative amount of P750,000 medical and hospitalization
benefits annually similar to that received by the National Artists
and funeral assistance/tribute fit for a National Living Treasure
GINAW BILOG
• A Filipino poet
• A Hanunuo Mangyan
• A native of Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro
• Known for his efforts in preserving the
Mangyan poetry tradition of ambahan
poetry, which is recorded on bamboo
MASINO INTARAY
• A Filipino poet, bard artist, and musician who is
a Palawan native known for his performance of the
local traditions of basal, kulilal and bagit
• Known for playing multiple indigenous
instruments namely
the basal (gong), aroding (mouth harp), and
the babarak (ring flute)
• Intaray is also known for his performance
of kulilal or songs and bagit, a form of vocal music
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SAMAON SULAIMAN
• A Filipino musician
• The Maguindanaon is known for his mastery
of the indigenous kutyapi instrument
• Sulaiman first learned playing kutyapi at
around 13 years old from his uncle and by the
time he was 35 years old, he was already
recognized in Maganoy for his skills in
playing the instrument as well as being a
teacher to aspiring kutyapi practitioners
LANG DULAY
• A Filipino traditional weaver
• She is credited with preserving her people's tradition of
weaving T'nalak, a dyed fabric made from refined abaca fibre
• Lang Dulay was a T'boli princess from the Lake
Sebu region in South Cotabato. She first learnt weaving at the
age of 12 from her mother, Luan Senig
• She is known for maintaining the use of traditional motifs in
T'nalak weaving amidst commercialization of the craft which
saw the introduction of more modern designs by non-T'bolis
• She notably had a mental repertoire of around 100 patterns
and designs in which some of these were based on her
dreams, hence her description as a "dreamweaver"
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SALINTA MONON
• A Filipino textile weaver
• She was known for her Bagobo-Tagabawa textiles
and was known as the "last Bagobo weaver"
• She grew up in Bituag, Bansalan in Davao del
Sur and watched her mother weave ikat a
traditional abaca fabric when she was a child
• She asked her mother how to use the loom at age 12
and learned how to weave within a few months
• Her favorite design is the binuwaya or crocodile
which is said to be among the most difficult to
weave
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ALONZO SACLAG
• A Filipino musician and dancer
• A member of the Kalinga people and a native
of Lubuagan, Kalinga province, Saclag taught
himself of his people's traditions in the performing
arts
• He learned how to play traditional Kalinga musical
instruments and Kalinga ritual dance movements
without formal or informal instruction
• Saclag worked to revive the dying tradition of
playing the gangsa, a type of Kalinga gong
FEDERICO CABALLERO
• A Filipino epic chanter
• Caballero is of the Panay-Bukidnon people from the Central
Panay mountains
• He is known for his work on the documentation of the oral
literature, particularly the ten epics. These epics are rendered in
an extinct language related to Kinaray-a
• Federico Caballero who is also called Nong Pedring learned
about epics from his mother and his grandmother, Anggoy Omil
who would chant these to him and his siblings as a lullaby
• He worked with the Bureau of Nonformal Education, to teach
people how to read and write and would promote the tradition of
epic chanting despite the initial objection of his children
UWANG AHADAS
• A Filipino folk musician of the Yakan people
• Ahadas along with his siblings musicians were taught how
to play Yakan traditional instruments as children. He first
learned how to play the gabbang, a wooden bamboo
instrument similar to the xylophone then learned how to
play the agung an instrument traditionally played by Yakan
men
• By age 20, Ahadas had already mastered
the kwintangan which is considered as the most important
Yakan musical instrument despite the instrument
traditionally reserved for women
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DARHATA SAWABI
• A Filipino weaver from Parang, Sulu
• Known for pis syabit, a traditional Tausūg cloth tapestry
worn as a head covering by the people of Jolo
• Unmarried, Sawabi does weaving as a means of
livelihood since farming, a common source of income for
Parang families, is not sustainable for herself
• Pis syabit weaving is a tedious work. It takes three days
for the warp alone to be made
• By age 48, she employs the help of apprentice weavers
and children in her work
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EDUARDO MUTUC
• A Filipino metalsmith and sculptor from Apalit, Pampanga
• He is a known to be a practitioner of the craft of pinukpuk which
involved the stamping of embellishments on metal sheets
• Mutuc create works of both secular and religious nature using
silver, wood and bronze mediums
• Finding an alternative source of income to supplement his
earnings from farming, he started his artistic career late as a
woodcarver at age 29. It was during his stint that he learned
woodcarving under Carlos Quiros
• On his sixth year, he learned silver plating or locally
known pinukpuk from a colleague and left the furniture shop
where he was working to be an independent craftsman
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