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This list contains an overview of the government recognized Cultural Properties of the Philippines in Central Luzon. The list is based on the official lists provided by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the National Museum of the Philippines.
Leaf speech (language and meaning) is popular among the Dumagat people, who use leaves to express themselves and send secret messages. [204] Shamanism and its related healing arts are found throughout the country, with each ethnic group having its unique concepts of shamanism and healing. Philippine shamans are regarded as sacred by their ...
Cultural Property wmph identifier [i] Site name Description Province City or municipality Address Coordinates Image PH-40-0001 Luz-Katigbak House: Also known as Casa de Segunda, this ancestral house was built in the 1880s by Segunda Katigbak and her husband Manuel Metra Luz.
Bulul, also known as bu-lul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao (and their sub-tribe Kalanguya) people of northern Luzon. The sculptures are highly stylized representations of ancestors and are thought to gain power and wealth from the presence of the ancestral spirit. [1]
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by cultural and ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.
It is the overall policy making body, coordinating, and grants giving agency for the preservation, development and promotion of Philippine arts and culture; an executing agency for the policies it formulates; and task to administering the National Endowment Fund for Culture and the Arts (NEFCA) – fund exclusively for the implementation of ...
Visual Arts – Painting 2003 José Tanig Joya (1931–1995) Manila: posthumous conferment Virgilio Senadrin Almario (b. 1944) Bulacan: Literature Alejandro Reyes Roces (1924–2011) Manila: Edgar Sinco Romero (1924–2013) Negros Oriental: Film and Broadcast Arts Salvador Floro Bernal (1945–2011) Pangasinan: Theater and Design 2006 Benedicto ...
The Buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis), one of the birds locally known in the Philippines as tikling, which were the inspiration for the movements of the dance. The name tinikling is a reference to birds locally known as tikling, which can be any of a number of rail species, but more specifically refers to the slaty-breasted rail (Gallirallus striatus), the buff-banded rail ...