The Gaddang are a tribal group to the north-east of Manila, in the provinces of Isabella and Cagayan. This is a modern reproduction of the traditional striped Gaddang textiles embroidered with small white beads.
What are the characteristics of Gaddang?
The Gaddang are distinguished for having elevated beadwork to an art form. Unique among northern Luzon communities, the Gaddang are lavish with their use of beadwork. Gaddang women are fond of wearing seed beads around their heads, necklaces, and wrists, but glass beads and precious stones are especially priced.
What is Gaddang costume?
Gaddang costumes are typically well-woven and colourful. The Gaddang people were involved in headhunting at least until the 1940s. The Gaddang population today is around 30,000-40,000. The set comprises: – an upper body jacket or blouse known as a lan-ma.
What is Gaddang made of?
This highly decorative hat was purchased in the 1990s, from an antique gallery in Manila. It comes with a tag that states it is from the Gaddang tribe, made of buri palm, rattan and beads. The Gaddang people live in North Luzon, the Philippines, and their costumes display exquisite beadworks.
What are the products of Gaddang?
Gaddangs produce other products like cellphone cases, pen holder and bags. With the use of other resources like carabao horns, wild pig fangs, chicken feathers and kugon grass are also utilized, but other resources like fabric, beads and cotton threads are bought outside their community.
Where is Gaddang?
The Gaddang are found in northern Nueva Vizcaya, especially Bayombong, Solano, and Bagabag on the western bank of the Magat River, and Santiago, Angadanan, Cauayan, and Reina Mercedes on the Cagayan River for Christianed groups; and western Isabela, along the edges of Kalinga and Bontoc, in the towns of Antatet, Dalig,
What is the proportion of Gaddang?
Gaddang speakers were recently reported to number as many as 30,000. This may include another 6,000 related Ga’dang speakers and other isolated linguistic-groups whose vocabulary is more than 75% identical. Collectively, they comprise less than one-twentieth of one percent of the population of the Philippines.
What is Kalinga tribe?
The Kalinga people are an indigenous ethnic group whose ancestral domain is in the Cordillera Mountain Range of the northern Philippines. They are mainly found in Kalinga province which has an area of 3,282.58 sq. km. Some of them, however, already migrated to Mountain Province, Apayao, Cagayan, and Abra.
