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Personal Adornment

Angelica Chiu | Maxine Chan | Terence Co | Eriza Valeriano | Gian Yap

Personal Ornaments: The art of beautifying oneself.

Basic Facts

Enhances a part of the wearer’s body

Signify prestige, rank, status or wealth

Basic Facts

Symbolize ritualistic and

emotional states

Serves as amulets and charms against

evil spirits

Designs are characterized by:

Basic Facts

symmetry and formal proportion sense of rhythm distinctive rather than specific emphasis curve as a prevailing form combined with basic forms primary colors

Ink (Tatoo art)

Common Materials Used

Carabao Horns and Bones

Shells

Stone


Gold

New Stone Age/ Neolithic Period Said to be as long-lasting as diamond Widely used

Neolithic Period Made into beads, bracelets, and ear and neck pendants

Nephrite/ Jade

Glass Beads


Early and Developed Metal Age material of which the working tools of prehistoric Filipinos were made highly valued for its technological and artistic qualities made into beads, ear pendants and bracelets

Earliest glass beads were imported Most beads unearthed made of glass

Tattoo Art

permanent body adornment symbolizes bearer's accomplishments in life or rank in the tribe bravery, character, knowledge and prowess in headhunting type of clothing enhances physical beauty drives away evil spirits

Tattoo ArtIfugao kinabu (dog) tinagu (man) ginawang and ginayaman (centipede)

Pintados traditional tattooing then replaced by anting-anting (amulet) tattoos with motifs derived from Christianity

T’boli hakang zigzag or geometric and highly stylized animal and human forms tattooed on the forearm and chests of men and the forearm and calves of women

Tattoo Art

Aeta scarification certain taboos for tattoo’s efficacy

Prison tattoo masculinity, gang membership, way of remembering loved ones, or simply to relieve boredom commonly used is snake which symbolizes sexual and physical prowess

Tattoo Art

Tattoo on women tends to be purely ornamental, although it may also indicate her status as the headman’s wife.

Tattoo Art

more beautiful possessing emotional and physical fortitude to endure pain and hardship (i.e. childbirth) affirmation of strength, spiritual power and procreative endowment form of clothing proclaimed their status form of recognition, allowing the soul to pass into the afterlife

Lane Wilcken (Filipino Tattoos Ancient To Modern)

Costume

set of garments, hairstyle, and accessories worn by individuals or a group of individuals in a given society may differ according to sex, class, age, status, occupation, rank, and personal taste reflects the dominant traditions as well as the values and aspirations of a given people

CostumeEthnic -> Spanish period -> American period -> Contemporary

Ethnic tradition

Men kanggan bahaque/bahag tubular skirts

Costume

Women saya no shoes nor underwear but were laden with jewelry hair was tied up in a knot and decorated with ribbons, flowers, or diadems

CostumeSpanish period

Men salawal camisa de chino pantalon

Women baro’t saya tapis pañuelo

CostumeAmerican period

Men americana abierta chaquetilla camisa de chino or barong tagalog

Women baro-saya-pañuelo vestido or dress

CostumeContemporary (post WWII)

more “casual” attire polo shirts long sleeved shirts bell-bottom pants dresses T-shirts and denims jackets, shoes, bags, glasses, underwear

T'boli women

Jewelry

Different Tribes and how they wear Jewelry

more jewelry = more fashionable = more attractive small bone pieces to hold necklaces in place

T’boli Woman

Kalinga Woman

Kalinga women "peacocks" of the Cordilleras shell butterflies and ear ornaments

Jewelry

Surigao sashes using the "loop-in-loop" technique

Ifugao

Jewelry

circular shell disks held with rattan called ginoto (hip ornament) use wild boar tusks topped with a carved sitting human figure as armlets use wild boar tusks for necklaces (strung w/ rattan)

Bagobo Woman

Jewelry

Aeta finely woven strands of behuco worn as leglets for strength and stamina

Bagobo - musical jewelry (hollow brass bracelets)

PlugBilaan Plug: mirror glass framed by tiny beads

Kalinga Plug: front ends covered with embroidered cloth

Jewelry: Types of Earrings

Graduated ring series / Kawat ears are pierced 7-8 times to attach brass hoops T’boli woman with

graduated ring earrings

T’boli women with bib earrings

Bib Earring / Kowol Common among Southern Philippine Tribe Catches light or quivers


T’boli woman with chandelier earrings

Chandelier

long tassels of beads threaded on horsehair


Cosmetic Containers Maranao gukom – traditional container for the aromatic beeswax used for massaging the lower lip

made of carabao horn

has a beaded train handle topped with another piece of carabao-horn carving

Pre-hispanic Rule - Gold was prevalent

Historical Timeline

Made into: Combs, Earrings, Weapon Handles Artifacts prove that ancient Fiipinos were great goldsmiths

Art of filigree Art of granulation

Greatest proof: gold sashes found in Surigao (“loop-in-loop” technique) Manufacturing of filigree jewelry or lacelike in gold and silver

Pre-hispanic Rule - Gold was prevalent

Spanish Rulespread of religious images and ornaments used in Catholic rituals

Historical Timeline

Spanish Rule

Examples: Crosses, Scapulars and Rosaries Both religious and political Veneration of saints through:

Bejeweled religious figurines or enameled in gold Images of Christ, the Virgin and saints

American Rule - streamlined

Historical Timeline

Diamond became prevalent Gold-work used as setting (necklace) Emphasis shifted to stones Deterioration of goldsmith’s art

Examples of Personal Adornment

Art and Faith

T’boli wears many jewelry to be attractive also to please the gods

Aeta woven behuco leglets to give wearer strength, stamina and speed

Art and Faith

Lingling-o Fertility Pendants

Lingling-o - Fertility Pendants

of Bontoc, Ifugao and Kalinga

Art and Faith

Tamburin

Tamburin

an ornamental form of rosary

Art and Power

Tribal tattoos enhance the beauty of the man or woman exhibit a man’s war record; more tattoos = more war medals


Pintados de Pasi Festival 2010

Pintados festival in Tacloban, Leyte

Most tattoed people (Visayans)

Pintados Islas del Pintados or Island of the Painted People

Art and Power


Art and Power

Isneg menhgalnecklaces that symbolizes headhunting feat

Ilocanoalaphor were pendants symbolic of the power of the elite


Ifugao Boar-Tusk Armlets

Art and Power

Bontoc and Ifugaoboar-tusk armlets after every successful war expedition

Art and Power

Ginut-tu

Ifugao Ginut-tu belt created from perforated-shell discs can only be worn by the nobility or kadangyan class

Everyday Use

Abaloryo latter part of the Spanish period fine glass beads intended for embellishing garments inexpensive body ornaments and rosaries for the masses


Abaloryo

Everyday Use

Mansaka girl wearing Sagay Sagay

Sagay sagay Musical bracelets of the Manoba and Mansaka Made of black coral that warned the wearer of danger

Scapulars, rosaries and medals with the image of Christ

widespread during the Spanish colonial-era and are still evident today

Scapular

Everyday Use

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