Johann Emmanuel R. Javier

III-2 BSE Music Education

It is believed that the first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived over many thousands of years ago. It is commonly thought that they migrated over a land bridge, which existed at that time, from the Asian mainland.from the Asian mainland.

The next known inhabitation is when the Negrito or Aeta arrived in the islands. However, they were driven back by several waves of immigrants from Indonesia, only to be followed by the maritime peoples of the Malayan islands.

Pottery

Carving

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Metal Work

Personal Ornamentation

Architechture

Archeological excavations reveal mastery that attest to the high level of artistic skills that pre-colonial skills that pre-colonial Filipinos possessed.

Many centuries ago in northern Luzon, the Ifugao built their magnificent stonewalled rice terraces. These terraces. These terraces make way for water from the mountain tops to irrigate the tiered fields and the valley below.

The Tagbanua of Palawan use whimsical sculptures of birds, lizards, turtles, snakes, pigs, turtles, snakes, pigs, and other animals for their rituals, as house decor and, at times, as toys for children.

Metalcraft includes all works or objects created from metal by the process of brass casting and blacksmithing, goldsmithing and silversmithing, or tinsmithing.

Weaving The Philippines is a diverse country. The culture in the north is very different from the ones in the south. But there are several things that bind the islands together. These are the common denominator that unites the Filipinos as common denominator that unites the Filipinos as a Nation.