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Possessed and Repossessed in T’Boli Country

Possessed and Repossessed in T’Boli Country

Situated about 70 kilometers from the port city of General Santos, Lake Sebu municipality spans 89 kilometers and can be found in the upper Allah Valley near the municipality of Surallah. It has rolling hills, mountain forests and three lakes devoted to aquaculture, the largest of which is the beautiful Lake Sebu, which covers 354 hectares.

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Published at 2018-12-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture

Tags: Cotabato, Tboli, indigenous, lakes, people

T’Boli: It's Better to Weave Than to Leave

T’Boli: It's Better to Weave Than to Leave

For over a decade now, I have been studying the traditional arts and their relevance in our modern culture. Traditional arts comprise a large part of our cultural heritage. They bring to the fore knowledge from the past not as something frozen in time, or something static, but as something quite dynamic, renewed and refreshed in every generation.

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Published at 2018-03-15 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary

Tags: Tboli, weaving

The T'boli Tribe of South Cotabato.

The T'boli Tribe of South Cotabato.

More than 40 different ethnic groups can be found in the Philippines. There are 18 tribal groups on the island of Mindanao. The most well known is the T'boli Tribe, that lives in the province of South Cotabato, around lake Sebu. Since the arrival of settlers originating from the other islands of the Philippines, they gradually moved to the mountain slopes to live in scattered settlements in the Higlands.

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Published at 2018-03-05 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Cotabato, South, Tboli, tribal

T'boli

T'boli

One of southern Mindanao’s indigenous people, the T’boli are concentrated in Kiamba, Maitum, and Surallah in South Cotabato. As settlers from other Philippine islands arrived, the T’boli gradually withdrew to the mountain slopes and lived in scattered villages.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Mindanao, Tboli, indigenous

Textile Tribes of the Philippines: the Tboli Dream Weavers

Textile Tribes of the Philippines: the Tboli Dream Weavers

Scattered in stilt houses surrounding scenic Lake Sebu live the textile tribal people known as the Tboli. One of the Philippines 80+ indiginous ethnic linguistic groups, the Tboli people live a simple life balancing modernization with their traditional culture of farming, fishing and craftsmanship.

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Published at 2018-02-25 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Dream Weavers, Tboli, Tradition, culture, tribal

The Story of T'nalak and the T'boli Tribe

The Story of T'nalak and the T'boli Tribe

The T'boli are famous for their dream-inspired and spirit infused T'nalak weavings, but also for their embroidery, brass casting and other crafts. T'nalak weaving is an artform perfected over decades of practice by T'boli women, and only a handful of master weavers can be considered true 'dream weavers', the works of whom are highly valued. The T'nalak Dream Weavers website seeks to promote the fair trade of traditional arts of the T'boli Tribe, located in Lake Sebu, in the Mindanao...

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Published at 2018-02-25 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: T'nalak, Tboli, tribal

Tboli People

Tboli People

The Tboli people are one of the indigenous peoples of South Cotabato in Southern Mindanao. The body of ethnographic and linguistic literature on Mindanao, they are variously known as Tboli, T'boli, Tböli, Tiboli, Tibole, Tagabili, Tagabeli, and Tagabulu. They term themselves Tboli or T'boli. Their whereabouts and identity are somewhat imprecise in the literature; some publications present the Tboli and the Tagabili as distinct peoples; some locate the Tbolis to the vicinity of the Lake Buluan...

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Published at 2018-02-25 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Tboli, people