Visayas Flashcards

National Commission for Culture and Arts

Institutions established to preserve and teach local cultural practices, including epic chanting, embroidery (panubok), dance (binanog), music, and bamboo handicrafts, mainly among Panay-Bukidnon and Ati communities.

Suguidanon

Epic chants of the Visayan people narrating the adventures of brothers Labaw Donggon and Humadapnon.

Panubok

Traditional embroidery used to decorate the saipang blouse with patterns of flowers, stars, vines, birds, and insects, executed in zigzag, triangle, and diamond motifs.

Binanog

A traditional Visayan dance mimicking birds, originally performed during harvests and weddings, emphasizing foot stamping and graceful arm movements.

Mar Weaving

A textile tradition in Basey, Samar featuring central motifs and border patterns of flowers, leaves, and feathers, often woven from native grass like tikog.

Patadyong

Traditional plaid textile from Antique, Iloilo, and Negros Occidental, woven in stripes, squares, and rectangles, influencing contemporary Visayan artists like the Black Artists of Asia.

Rock Drilon

Iloilo-born painter and protégé of Jose Joya, known for abstract expressionism using textured overlays, subtractive methods, and playful forms of boundless coils and knots.