Philippines

The Philippines preserves the Hudhud rice chants, the Ifugao rice terraces, ikat weaving and the bamboo dance tinikling.

Language & oral Building & habitat Textile & dress Music & dance Food & cooking

Knowledge in this place

Hudhud chants

Hudhud chants

Long narrative chants of the Ifugao performed during rice planting, harvest and wakes.

Language & oral

Ifugao rice terraces

Ifugao rice terraces

Stone and mud terraces carved into mountainsides and fed by an ancient gravity irrigation system.

Building & habitat

T'nalak ikat weaving

T'nalak ikat weaving

T'boli women tie-dye abaca fibre from dreamed patterns before weaving it into ceremonial cloth.

Textile & dress

Tinikling bamboo dance

Tinikling bamboo dance

Dancers hop between bamboo poles clapped together in rhythm, imitating a wading bird.

Lechon roasting

Lechon roasting

Roasting a whole pig stuffed with herbs over charcoal, turned slowly until the skin crackles.