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Geo-ecological Cultrual Influences

Philippine Music and Dance

Philippine Textile Technology (Prehispanic)

  • Textiles
  • Designs
    • Damit
    • Basahan - ordinary work clothes
    • Giliw (prehispanic Philippine clothing) - sackcloth or rough clothing
    • Gimay - poor, worn clothes
    • Halos - Expensive clothes for special ocassions
    • Panapin (pansapin) - underclothes
    • Takdang - any garments worn below the waist
  • Dyes
    • Bark Dye Technologies

Philippine Farming Technology

  • Philippine Farming Tools

Philippine Medical Technology

  • Time of Day
  • Seasons
  • measurements
  • measurement technologies
    • ganta

Philippine Flora

I'm hoping to add cultural aspects of Flora and Fauna in the Philippines to their various pages, or subpages, or whatever. I need advice on how to go about this...? Specifically, can local names of animals be added to their english names?

Trees

Balete I didn't even know until I read the Kapre wiki that the Balete is the Banyan tree!; Narra; Niyog;

Shrubs

Herbs

Philippine Fauna

Mammals

Alamid- created redirect to Asian Palm Civet;

Cloud rat

Mythical Mammals

Sigbin

Birds

Canaoay; it turns out that for ilocanos this term refers to the Cattle Egret, while to Tagalogs it is a general term for any kind of tern.

Kalaw ( Rufous Hornbill) and Tariktik ( Tarictic Hornbill) - I hope to expound on the use of these birds by early filipinos as a means of keeping the time.;

Manok

references

Darag native chicken:Pride of Western Visayas

welcome old-fashioned way of raising chickens

Limbas;

Philippine Fairy Bluebird (Tigmamanukan) ;

Fairy Bluebird

references

Honolulu Zoo: Fairy Bluebird

Nagbuhat sa bughaw - the creation story as told by Prof. Adelaida B. Zamora of PUP

Mythical Birds

Adarna;

Sarimanok;

Reptiles

Mythical Reptiles

Naga (mythology)

Amphibians

Fish

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