MAPEH GRADE 7 ARTS AND CRAFTS ARTS7Q3L2.pptx

ARTS FOR GRADE 7

1. CLOTHING OF THE BAGOBO, T’BOLI, MARANAO AND YAKAN TRIBES Lesson 2 Arts 7

2. The Bagobo The Bagobo are a settled people, practicing agriculture as well as hunting and fishing. Their chief crop is rice, which they grow in clearings on the mountain sides. Since this grain is their staple food, the whole routine of its cultivation is most closely bound up with their religious beliefs and practices.

3. The women are the weavers. They make beautiful hemp cloths on a primitive loom.

4. The dress of the men consists of a short tightly fitting jacket, open in front, and very short tight trunks. The women’s jackets are similar in shape to those of the men, but they are closed in front so that they have to be slipped on over the head. The women wear also a tube skirt, of the same width throughout, like a sack.

5. The jackets of both men and women are richly ornamented with shell discs, glass beads or embroidery. The men wear a kerchief, folded and tied, on their heads; a woman’s coiffure is embellished with bead-incrusted combs cut out of wood, from which hang heavy festoons of beads.

6. T’BOLI: DREAM WEAVERS Scattered in stilt houses surrounding scenic Lake Sebu live the textile tribal people known as the T’boli . One of the Philippines 80+ indigenous ethnic linguistic groups, the T’boli people live a simple life modernization balancing with their traditional culture of farming, fishing, and craftsmanship.

7. Labeled as the Dream Weavers the Tboli are famous for diligently transforming the natural Abaca plant into a magnificent mystic material known as the T’nalak . These distinctive sacred symmetrical designs are inspired directly by the visions in their dreams and taught in T’boli schools of a living tradition.

8. More fascinating than the process of the T’nalak , is that the Tboli women’s distinctively adorned cultural dress was only implemented a mere 60 years ago when Christian missionaries brought new materials and skills into theregion .

9. More fascinating than the process of the T’nalak , is that the T’boli women’s distinctively adorned cultural dress was only implemented a mere 60 years ago when Christian missionaries brought new materials and skills into the region.