The Bukidnon Flashcards
Who is the author of The Bukidnon of North-Central Mindanao
José Maria Clotet, S.J.
Father
José Clotet wrote this report to his superior at the Ateneo, ________, he had been in the district of Misamis for more than a month
Fr. Migue!
Rosés
veteran
missionaries like___________, and civil servants like Don ____________, then judge of the village of ________.
Fr. Eusebio Barrado, Procopio de AlcAntara, Tagoloan
Clotet was gathering…
religion, manners, and customs of the mountain people
Where was Clotet staying?
Talisayan
refers to a settlement of pagans made at the instance of, and ordinarily
in the location chosen by, Spanish authorities.
Reduction
is meant a
settlement which has no resident priest
visitas
The mountain people [monteses] are recognized in
Mindanao under the name of ____________ (forest-dwellers),
and are found in the district of _______.
Buquidnons , Misamis
Three large groups:
- those who live
in the mountains and fertile plains irrigated by the Tagoloan,
Cagayan, and Iponan rivers; - those who
live adjacent to the Manobos of the Agusan valley between
Gingoog and Nasipit; - who live
on the right bank of the Pulangui River, and along some of
its branches.
On the accompanying ethnographic map they
are indicated by the _________.
number 6
Their exact number is not known, but it is estimated that
there are more than ______ of them at present.
13,000
If one judged by the openness
with which they speak with the father missionary, and the ease
in which they do business with the old Christians, he would
hardly say they were _________.
pagans
his understanding is obscured and confused by false ideas which
have their effects in everything he does.
Pagan
was among
the first to stump for the spelling “Bukidnon” instead of the hispanicized “Buquidnon.”
Blumentritt
They preserve the Spanish form of Bukidnon
Blair and Robertson
In 1889 Mindanao was divided, for administrative purposes, into
six districts, of which ________ was the second.
Misamis
Bukidnon as “inhabitants of the thicket,” or
“forest-dwellers” [habitantes del bosque] is incorrect. It means rather
“_____________.”
mountain people
The women wear ___________, tucked neatly at the waist
into ________skirts,
white shirt, ankle-length
Over this they wear ___________
and ______, on which they sew little bits of cloth
of many different colors, in the manner of fine patchwork.
another short, close-fitting shirt
From the waist on the left side they hang
________ [zarcillos] and _________, along
with glass beads and cascabels.
rings, bundles of sweet-scented herbs
On their legs are worn fine
__________, ______, or _______; they hang quite loosely, so that
walking produces a sound
rings of copper, brass. silver
they
_________ the principal lock of the hair, without braiding
it, in the form of a large. high crown.
twist and knot
All about the head hang
__________ of hair of equal length, which appear on the
forehead as bangs
very short locks
The entire hair-do is crowned by
beautiful comb
Many women are actually laden with ______ from the
wrists almost to the elbows; some of these are of metal, others
of ________, others of taclobo,
bracelets, tortoise-shell
To adorn their ears
they generally wear a kind of __________ [aretes] (balaring),
made of a cylinder of wood,
wide ear-plug
They are often made of strings of beads interwoven in different
colors, Clusters of cascabels and shells, or bundles of blue or red
silk, are frequently hung from the necklaces,
necklaces and rings
necklaces made from wild boars’ bristles
woven into circlets and joined one to another in the manner
of a net;
balucag,
What type of neckalcae struck Clotet?
necklace made of silver coins
The center was a duro of _________, somewhat flattened out, which formed as it were
the medallion of the necklace.
Charles
the Third
capital sum for someone from one of
those mountain settlements
30 pesos
When they receive the saving ___________, they are
relieved of all these vain adornment—
waters of baptism
These objects are taken away because they generally
use them as _______ against the various sicknesses and injuries
which they fear, or as a positive aid in getting what they want,
and the like, I
amulets
the father missionary gives them _____, ______, and scapulars,
medals, rosaries, scapulars
Taclobo is the Tagalog name of a _______; here used for the shell
lage snail
The dress of the men is simple and is the same as _________ [indios] usually wear.
lowland Filipinos
The shirts are not worn outside the trousers, as by
the other Filipinos, but are concealed except for the bosom,
which is allowed to show especially when the shirt is _______.
well embroidered
They twist it into a knot which they
conceal with a _______, generally red, which is worn tied about
the head in the style of the _______ of Aragon
kerchief, swains
Some consider it an important part of personal adornment
to _________, and to file them with flints,
blacken the teeth
________ that they are, they have four gods at the four
cardinal points:
Polytheists
North, _________; at the South,
_______; at the East, Tagolambong; and at the West, _________.
Domalongdong, Ongli, Tagolambong, Magbabaya.
these four deities a perfect resemblance to the
________, of the worshippers of Brahma
Vazus
__________ govern the nations of the North;
_________, those of the South; ________, those of the East;
and ________, those of the West.
Vazu-Pulastia, Vazu-Yama, Vazu-Indra, Vazu-Varuna
