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04 Palawani

The Palawano tribe lives scattered across Palawan, Philippines in small houses on their farm lands where they practice subsistence farming of crops like upland rice. They traditionally hunt with blowguns and produce unique rattan baskets called tingkep for storing rice and valuables. The Palawano have an animistic religion mixed with elements of Hinduism and Islam, and perform rituals to appease spirits. Some have adopted Islam or Christianity in recent years.

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04 Palawani

The Palawano tribe lives scattered across Palawan, Philippines in small houses on their farm lands where they practice subsistence farming of crops like upland rice. They traditionally hunt with blowguns and produce unique rattan baskets called tingkep for storing rice and valuables. The Palawano have an animistic religion mixed with elements of Hinduism and Islam, and perform rituals to appease spirits. Some have adopted Islam or Christianity in recent years.

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1) PALAWANI
a) Features
i) Some Tausug residents in Palawan call the Palawano Traan, which means "people in scattered
places".
b) Culture
i) The tribe's language appears to resemble that of the Malay, although different groups may
exhibit some distinctions depending on their location.
ii) They traditionally hunt using soars and bamboo blowguns.
iii) Palawano live in houses out of sight of each other, scattered among their plots of farm lands.
iv) Their main occupation is subsistence farming, cultivating mainly upland rice.
v) A famous handicraft produced by the Palawanos is called tingkep. It is a unique basket made of
rattan and used to store rice, carry food, or even store treasured possessions. Tingkep is also
used by healers during a ritual called kundu to house the spirit of Linamen, a beautiful and
powerful female spirit. This woven basket is slowly gaining popularity among tourists, which
serves as another source of profit for the tribe.
c) Belief & Practice
i) Their religion is an old form of belief once practised throughout the central Philippines prior to
the Spanish arrival in the 16th century; a mix of traditional animism with elements of Hinduism
and Islamic belief. Some have embraced Islam from their southern Molbog and Palawani
neighbors. A small number of them are Protestant due to recent missionary campaigns.
d) Rites & Rituals
i) They were animists who regularly performed rituals to appease the good and bad spirits to assist
the tribe in both spiritual and material matters.

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