From the Ma'i Collection (1981-1985)
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Indigenous Group – Intangible Culture
Filipinos love a great story, even if it comes from the smallest, most ordinary things. These everyday objects featured hold a unique story, an interesting design, or are just simply one of a kind.
Burial objects often inspire both dread and fascination.
The four mop-topped boys from Liverpool had nothing on the original Betel-mania that swept Asia. In the Philippines, traces of the tradition of betel quid chewing can be found all over the...
The Hanunoo-Mangyan etch their script on bamboo tubes. The inscriptions here are a translation of a Biblical verse. Bamboo tubes are also the medium for the ambahan, a poetic literary form of...