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Pre - Conquest
GERALD BARROGO
What we'll discuss
today
The history of arts before the colonization of the
spaniards
PRE-CONQUEST
Hunter Gatherers
Ritual
Preparing the hunters and prayed to have the
strength of the animals that they've hunted.
Literature
Dance
Dancing to the music
Pre-Conquest
RITUALS
Cañao
KA N YAW
• Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)
• Officiated by a shaman or mumbaki
• Animal sacrifice
WH E N D O T HE Y DO T HI S
• healing
• announce the birth of a child
• coming of age (legal)
• Wakes
• Weddings
• Burial Ceremonies
Kashawing
• Lake Lanao in Mindanao
• reenactment of the pact made by the ancestors and unseen
spirits that inhabit the lake
WH E N D O T HE Y DO T HI S
• During rice planting and harvesting
Palawan
TA G BA N WA
• thirteenth moon, three goddesses descend from the heaven
to bless the planting of rice
• The shamans go into a trance
Pre-Conquest
MUSIC
Music Instruments
• pipes
• flutes
• zithers
• drums
• kudyapi
• kulintang
• gansa or flat gong
• agong
• bamboo percussion instruments
Pre-Conquest
DANCE
Native dance forms
• Sulu archipelago
• mimetic of the movements of seabirds
Predatory Birds
• Mandayas'kinabua
• banog-banog of the Higanon and B'laan
communites
• man-manok of the Bagobos of Minadano
Talip dance
• Of Ifugaos
• is used for courtship
• imitate the movements of wild fowls
Tinikling
CARVING
Bulul
• From Ifugaos
• Regarded as the Granary God that plays an
important role in rituals
IT A PPE A RS O N
• Containers
• Bowls
• Spoons
Hagabi
• From Ifguaos
• A wooden bench
Santos
• From Christianized communities of Laguna and
Pampanga
Pottery
Ancient Forms
Weaving
Weaving
Ornaments
Boxer codex
It is a manuscript in the 16th century that shows the
ethnolinguistic groups
U SE S WHO
Metalwork
Lotoans
• used in ceremonies
• cherished as a status symbol
• Heirloom pieces
• A vessel used for pouring liquids. It has a
round body with no handle.
• Lost wax
Lost wax