Philippine Art Flashcards
Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures
- cultural exchange through migration and trade
Pre-colonial Art in the Philippines
Tabon Cave in Palawan holds the earliest human remains in the country; the skullcap of the Tabon Man
DESIGN (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
- Batangas’ stone tools
- jade bracelet and lingling-o earrings
RECPTACLES (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
- used containers (served as a funerary)
- endorse and protect the bodies of their deceased relatives by using leaves, wood, and
bamboo
TEXTILE WEAVING (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
- Flat stone tools
JEWELRY (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
use of pierced cone shells
POTTERY (Pre-colonial Art and Southeast Asian Cultures)
smoothing paddles and using stone anvils, and shells were
added for support
Representational Art: Sculpture
- Carvings of the Cordillera’s anito and bulul, and Mindanao’s okir and pako-rabong designs
- anitos represented spirits and played a similar
role to patron saints.
Baybayin (PS)
an abugida or an alphasyllabary
Tanaga (OT)
type of Filipino poem using four lines
Ibalon (OT)
portrays the heroic deeds of Baltog, Handyong and Baltong in freeing the Bicol Peninsula of beasts and monsters
Hinilawod (OT)
a triangle-shaped island in the western Visayas. It means ‘Tales from the Mouth of the Halawod River’.
Lam ang (OT)
long poem among the Ilocanos
Darangan (OT)
maranao narrative poetry
Hudhud and Alim (OT)
- from the Mountain province
- feats of Aliguyon and Alim