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Gamaba Awardees

This document provides information on several recipients of the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) award, which recognizes important figures in Philippine culture. The recipients included in the document are recognized for contributions such as preserving indigenous poetry traditions, folk music, weaving, tattoo art, and oral literature. Skills and arts represented include ambahan poetry, music played on gongs and flutes, mat and textile weaving featuring patterns of nature, tattooing, and epic storytelling. The dates of the awards range from 1993 to 2004.

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Gamaba Awardees

This document provides information on several recipients of the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) award, which recognizes important figures in Philippine culture. The recipients included in the document are recognized for contributions such as preserving indigenous poetry traditions, folk music, weaving, tattoo art, and oral literature. Skills and arts represented include ambahan poetry, music played on gongs and flutes, mat and textile weaving featuring patterns of nature, tattooing, and epic storytelling. The dates of the awards range from 1993 to 2004.

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Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) Awardees

Ginaw Bilog

Date of Award: 1993

-was a Filipino poet who was recognized as a National Living


Treasure by the Philippine government.

Born on January 3, 1953, Bilog was a Hanunuo Mangyan who was a


native of Mansalay Oriental Mindoro, he was known for his efforts in
preserving the mangyan poetry tradition of ambahan. Then
President Fidel V. Ramos, conferred the National Living Treasure
Award to Ginaw Bilog on December 17, 1993 in recognition of his
people's preservation efforts of the ambahan poetry which is
recorded on bamboo. He died in June 3, 2003 at age 50 due to a
lingering illness.

Artwork:
Masino Intaray
Date of Award: 1993

The master musician lived in Brooke's Point town in


Palawan province, but was born near Makagwa Valley.
He was a skilled and proficient player of the basal (gong),
aroding (mouth harp), and babarak (ring flute). He was
also well-versed in kulilal (songs) and bagit (vocal music),
according to the National Commission for Culture and
the Arts (NCCA).
And like any good epic chanter, he had the endurance,
memory, and creativity to chant epics, narratives, and
myths into the night and for several nights in a row.
Intaray was awarded the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, or National Living Treasures Award, in 1993.

Haja Amina Appi


Was recognized as the master mat weaver among the Sama
indigenous community of Ungos Matata. Mat weaving has be
praised upon for it requires patience and high precision, in
which you should master the proportions and the symmetrical
pattern you will weave.

Artwork:
Uwang Ahadas
Date of Award: 2000

-is a Filipino folk musician of the Yakan people who


is a recipient of the National Living Treasures
Award. Ahadas was recognized as a National Living
Treasure by the National Commission for Culture
and the Arts in the year 2000.

Born February 15, 1945 (age 74)

Origin Lamitan, Basilan

Genres Folk

Instruments abbangagungkwintangan

Artwork:
Alonzo Saclag

Date of Award: 2000

Saclag was conferred the National Living Treasures Award in


2000. By 2016, he has established a village within his town,
named Awichon which aims to promote Kalinga culture to
tourists.

Teofilo Garcia

Date of Award: 2012


Teofilo learned how to make gourd casques and weave baskets from his
grandfather at the age of 16. Since he learned the craft, he never stopped
experimenting with other designs. He previously used nito (vine trimmings) to
decorate the headgear and then used with other materials such as bamboo after
his supplier from Cagayan passed away.

Tabungaw
Apo Whang-od

Date of award: 2015


Eighty-eight-year-old Whang-od Oggay is considered as the last mambabatok
(hand-tap tattoo artist) of her tribe. She hails from mountains of the Cordilleras,
specifically in Buscalan in the municipality of Tinglayan in the Kalinga province.

Tattoo art

Lang Dulay

Date of award: 1998


The T'bolis are known for their use of abaca fibers in textile weaving. Lang
Dulay continued this tradition and preserved the culture of their community
through patterns of crocodiles, butterflies, flowers, mountains, and streams
and of Lake Sebu in her works.

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Salinta Monon

Date of award: 1998


Salinta Monon started learning weaving traditional Bagobo
textiles from her mother at the age of 12. Her family is among
the remaining Bagobo weavers in the community.

Tagabawa Bagobo

Federico Caballero

Date of award: 2000


Federico Caballero, a Panay-Bukidnon from the mountains of Central Panay,
has worked hard to document the oral literature of his people. He has
preserved the epics that use a language that has long been dead by working
together with scholars, artists, and advocates of culture.

Artwork
Darhata Sabawi

Date of award: 2004


Darhata Sawabi is one of the master weavers in the island of Jolo. Like
most women in their tribe, she has learned the art of weaving the pis
syabit, the traditional cloth tapestry worn as head cover by the Tausug of
Jolo, from her mother.

PIS SYABIT

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