GAMABA

AWARDEES
GINAW BILOG

 Ginaw Bilog is a Hanunuo

Mangyan poet from Man-
ansalay, Oriental Mindoro.
He was born on January 3,
1953.
GINAW BILOG
 He is considered as a master
of Ambahan poetry.This
wisdom is his key to the un-
derstanding of Mangyan
Soul.
GINAW BILOG
 In 1993, he was given the
Gawad Sa Manlilikha Ng
Bayan Award.
AMBAHAN  Ambahan is a poetic literary
form composed of seven-syl-
lables lines used to convey
messages through metaphors
and images.
AMBAHAN  The ambahan is sung and its
messages range from
courtship, giving advice to the
young, asking for a place to
stay, saying goodbye to a dear
friend,etc.
AMBAHAN  The ambahan has remained in
existence today chiefly be-
cause it is etched on bamboo
tubes using ancient Southeast
Asian, pre-colonial script
called Surat Mangyan.
Masino Intaray  Born on April 10, 1943 near the
head of the river in Makagwa
valley on the foothill of Man-
talingayan mountain of
Palawan.Living in the highlands
of southern Palawan together
with the Batak and Tagbanwa
Masino Intaray
 Outstanding master of the basal,
kulilal and bagit
 Gifted poet, lyricist artist, and
musician
 Also plays the aroding (mouth
harp) and babarak (ring flute)
Masino Intaray
 Basal (gong ensemble)

 The kulilal is a highly lyrical poem expressing passionate love

sang with the accompaniment of the kusyapi (two-stringed lute),
played by a man, and pagang (bamboo zither) played by a woman.
Masino Intaray

Kusyapi Pagang

 The bagit, also played on the kudyapi, is strictly instrumental mu-

sic depicting the rhythms, movements and sounds of nature, birds,
monkeys, snakes, chirping of insects, rustling of leaves, the ele-
ments and the like.
Masino Intaray

Aroding(mouth harp) Babarak(ring flute)

Masino Intaray
 Prolific and pre-eminent epic
chanter and story teller.
 Creative memory, endurance,
clarity of intellect and spiritual
purpose that enable him to chant
all through the night, for succes-
sive nights,
Masino Intaray
 countless tultul (epics), sudsun-
git (narratives), and tuturan
(myths of origin and teachings of
ancestors).
Masino Intaray
 Part of the traditional artists of
the highest order of merit
 1993 GAMABA (Gawad sa
Manlilikha ng Bayan) Awardee.
Apo Whang Od
 Whang-Od Oggay is the oldest
tattoo artist in the world.
 She was born on February
17,1917.
 She is 107 years old
Apo Whang Od
 She is from Buscalan, Kalinga
Philippines
 She is part of the Butbut people,
an ethnic group in Kalinga
 She is the last mambabatok or
traditional Kalinga tattooist
Apo Whang Od

 Her style of tattooing is called

batok or hand-tap tattooing.
 She uses charcoal, water and a
thorn of a lemon tree.
Apo Whang Od
 The National Commission for
Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
conferred on Whang-od the pres-
tigious Dangal ng Haraya Award
at Tabuk, the capital of Whang-
od's ethnic province of Kalinga,
in 2018.
Apo Whang Od

 She was nominated for the Na-

tional Living Treasures Award
(Gawad Manlilikha ng Bayan) in
2017.
THANK YOU