KANKANAY & KALINGA

GROUP#3
Bituen, Christian A.
Naig, Peter Z.
Rosales, Jerome V.
• Language:kankanae and ilocano
• Region : Cordillera Administrative Region
• Location: Sagada , Besao (mountain province )
• Religion: Roman Catholicism
• Climate: oceanic climate ‘“highland’’’and ‘“maritime’” is the
Köppen classification of the climate typical of west coasts in higher
middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers
(relative to their latitude) and cool but not cold winters.

• identify themselves as part of a tribe called Applai or Aplai

 Production

cabbage, Spanish Citrus, mainly lemon, strawberries, and

tomatoes, green colonizers lime and Valencia peaches(Americans )
pepper, introduced oranges (Spain)
potatoes, carrots, Arabica coffee
beans
 A BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT KANKANAY
• The language (Kataugnan), The Kankanaey people are an
Indigenous peoples of the Northern Philippines. They are part of
the collective group of indigenous people known as the Igorot
people.
• North of Ibaloi territory, the northern part of Benguet and the
southern part of Bontoc area, live the Kankanai whose traditional
houses.
• Binangiyan, are distinctly different from those of the Ibaloi and
remarkably similar to those of the Ifugao
• 18and 19th century sources mention villages of 15 to 20 houses,
some up to 40, throughout the Cordillera(Some villages and
houses were surrounded with low stone walls)
• 1620 the settlement of Boa, now Antamok, had a dry moat and
wooden fortifications
 FEATURES OF HOUSES IN KANKANAY
• The Kankanai house has a high, steep, hipped roof
with the ridge parallel to the front. The roof drops,
to about 1.50 m. above the ground.
• The house cage measures about 4.000 by 4.50 m.
and the plank floor, about 7.00 by 7.50 m
• The Kankanai house is made of narra or pine.
• Bauko house-the sill supporting the front wall of
the house cage extends to the eaves and is
supported at each end by a post.
• The house has only one entrance, the front door, to
which the visitor ascends by means of a slender,
detachable ladder
• The house has only one entrance, the front
door, to which the visitor ascends by means of
a slender, detachable ladder
• The door panels are decorated with vertical
flutings and the beams and joists with
horizontal wave-like flutings
 GEOLOGICAL
NARRA
• also called asana, padauk, mukwa, Burmese
rosewood, or Andaman redwood, genus of
timber trees of the pea family (Fabaceae),
native to asia and africa
PINE
• wood is widely used in high-value carpentry items
such as furniture, window frames, paneling, floors
and roofing, and the resin of some species is an
important source of turpentine.
KALINGA
 GEOGRAPHICAL & CLIMATE
• Kalinga covers a total area of 1M square
meter with more than thousands of vikings
3,231.25 square kilometers (1,247.59 sq.
mi) occupying the central section of the
Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon.
• The dry season extends from November to
April, while the rest of the year is
considered the rainy season, the heaviest
rains usually occurring from July to
October.
BRIEF HISTORY OF KALINGA
 NORTHERN KALINGA

• WHO ARE SWIDDEN FARMERS LIVE

IN SCATTERED HAMLETS WITH SIX
TO 30 HOUSES.
• A VILLAGE CONSIST OF A DOZEN
HOUSES, NEAR EACH OTHER
ARRANGED IN TWO ROWS, AND
HOUSES SCATTERED SINGLY OR IN
TWO’S AND THREE’S NEAR THE
WIDDEN.
SOUTHERN KALINGA

• WHO FARM BOTH WET TERRACES

AND SWIDDENS, HAVE TOWN LIKE
SETTLEMENTS, SOME WITH UP TO
200 HOUSES, AS WELL AS SMALL
VILLAGES
• IN LARGE SETTLEMENTS HOUSES
ARE BUILT CLOSE TO EACH OTHER
AND ARE SOMETIMES GROUPED
AROUND OPEN SPACES.
TYPES OF HOUSE IN
KALINGA
 OCTAGON HOUSE

• THE OCTAGON HOUSE CALLED

BINAYON OR FINARYON IS FOUND
IN UPPER KALINGA.
• THE ONLY TYPE OF HOUSE IN THE
REGION.
• IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE
OCTAGONAL HOUSE WERE HOUSES
OF THE RICH.
 FEATURES OF OCTAGON HOUSE
• THE THATCHED, HIPPED ROOF IS NOT HIGH AND STEEP, AND THE EAVES
FORM A ROUGH EDGED CIRICLE.
• THE OCTAGON HOUSE IS ABOUT 6.00 M. LONG AND 5.20 M. WIDE.
• THE FLOOR OF THE LIVING QUARTER IS 1.20 M. ABOVE THE GROUND.
• THE HEIGHT OF THE ROOF RIDGE IS ABOUT 4.50.
• THE WALLS OF FROM FLOOR LEVEL TO EAVES ARE WOODEN BOARDS
PLACED VERTICALLY.
• FROM GROUND TO FLOOR LEVEL , THE WALLS ARE OF PLAITED BAMBOO
OR SAWALI.
• TOTAL OF 12 POST USED AS SUPPORTS TO THE BINAYON HOUSES
• SQUARE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE HOUSE IS DEFINED AND SUPPORTED
BY FOUR POST WHILE THE OTHER EIGHT POSTS ARE DISTRIBUTED ON
THE FOUR CORNERS.
 TRADITIONAL HOUSE IN LOWER
KALINGA
• IS ABOUT 6.00M LONG, 5.00M WIDE AND 5.75M HIGH FROM GROUND TO ROOF
RIDGE.
• THE ROOF IS GABLED AND ITS RIDGE IS PARALLEL TO THE SIDES OF THE
HOUSE.
• THE ROOF OF MODERATE PITCH, MAYBE OF THATCH OR BAMBOO.
• THE FLOOR RISES ABOUT 1.50M ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; A LADDER CONNECTS
IT TO THE GROUND.
• THE WALLS FROM THE GROUND TO FLOOR LEVEL ARE OF HORIZONTALLY
LAID BAMBOO POLES, AND FROM FLOOR TO EAVES LEVEL ARE VERTICALLY
SET WOODEN BOARDS.
• IN FRONT AND BACK THE WOODEN WALLS END AT HEIGHT OF ABOUT 2.50M.
• THE FLOOR CONSISTS OF A WIDE MIDDLE SECTION, DATTAGON, AND TWO
NARROW SLIGHTLY ELEVATED SIDE SECTIONS, SIPI, EACH ABOUT 1.2OM WIDE.
• FOUR INNER POST FORMING A SQUARE
OR RECTANGLE CONSTITUTE THE
HOUSE’S CORE SUPPORT.
• THE POST ARE PARTLY SUNK INTO THE
GROUND.
• OUTSIDE THE EIGHT OUTER POST A
RABBETED STILL RECEIVES THE
VERTICAL WALL BOARDS.
• ON THE SILLS THAT DEFINE THE
LOWER CENTRAL SECTION OF THE
MIDDLE FLOOR STAND POST, EACH
ONE SET AROUND 40CM. FROM THE
FRONT OR BACK WALL BOARDS.
• PURLINS ON THE RAFTERS RECEIVE A
RUNO SHEATH WOVEN WITH RATTAN,
AND OVER WHICH THATCH IS LAID.
 GEOLOGICAL

 THATCH- a roof  SAWALI - refers to  BAMBOO - like true wood,

covering of straw, woven split bamboo mats is a natural composite
reeds, palm leaves, or a used in the Philippines to material with a high
similar material. construct walls. strength-to-weight ratio
useful for structures.
 RUNO SHEATH WOVEN - is a
kind of furniture woven from any
one of a variety of cane-like
materials, including rattan,
willow, reed and bamboo.