PHILIPPINE VERNACULAR Interior Design

Manunggul Jar

What is the boat-shaped secondary burial jar with two human figures found in Tabon Caves, Palawan?

Anthropomorphic Jars

What is a burial urn featuring human figures with facial features of Mindanao's early inhabitants?

Burnay

What are unglazed earthen jars with small openings used for storing water, rice, basi, salt, and bagoong in Vigan, Ilocos Sur?

Tapayan / banga

What are large wide-mouthed earthenware or stoneware jars found in Philippines?

Palayok

What is the traditional Filipino clay cooking pot?

Ikat

What is the weaving style using resist dyeing, practiced by the Ifugao and other Mindanao tribes?

Inabel / Abel Iloco

What is the traditional woven product from the Ilocos region, made from dyed cotton with soft, tropical-friendly designs?

Banig

What is a handwoven mat used for sleeping and sitting?

T'nalak

What is the fabric made from fine abaca fibers, woven with designs reflecting T'boli traditions?

Malong (Tube skirt)

What is a handwoven tube skirt made by the Maranao?

Lingling-o/Dinumug

What is a double-headed pendant or amulet, symbolizing fertility and virility, from the Ifugao and Kalinga tribes?

Barong

What is a leaf-shaped blade?

Kris

What is the wavy-bladed dagger or sword originating from the Tausug people of the Sulu Islands?

Kampilan

What is the single-edged steel sword with an ivory naga-shaped handle, used by the Moro people of Mindanao and Sulu?

Gadur

What is the Maranao ceremonial vessel with a bulbous body, used for presenting wedding gifts?

lotoan

What is the Maranao ceremonial box used for betel nut chewing and tobacco preparation in social and ritual practices?

Bul-ul

What do you call an Ifugao god, a guardian spirit of rice granaries, forests, etc.?

Kinib bigat/kinabagat

What is the bulul-like central post in an Ifugao house?

Hagabi

What are the large carved benches symbolizing wealth and power among wealthy Ifugao families?

Binabuy

Ifugao pig sculptures

Punamhan

What is the covered wooden ritual box used by the Ifugaos to pray for abundant rice harvests?

Okir

What is ukkil, the folk plant motif of Moro and Lumad art?

Sarimanok

What is the legendary bird of the Maranao?

Datag

What is the raised sleeping platform used by the Tau't Batu people in southern Palawan cave during bad weather?

Pinanahang

What is a lean-to house built by the Aeta tribe as a windbreak?

Balai

What is a traditional house in Apayao with high-pitch roof resembling a pointed barrel vault with removable wall panel?

Rakuh

What is the Ivatan traditional house with bigger floor area with a lower level which functions as the storage area, made of stone and mortar?

Sinadumparan / maytuab

What is the Ivatan low, one-story traditional house with stone masonry wall, elaborately crafted wood truss system with bamboo, reed rattan and thick thatch roof?

Binayon

Kalinga octagonal house

Foruy

Kalinga house that is square in shape

Afung

What is the traditional Bontoc house with steep, thick roofing, where married couples stay in Mountain Province?

Fayu

a rich family resides, basic form is like that of the Ifugao house except that the Bontoc house cage serves as a granary

Bale

What is the traditional Ifugao House with windowless one-room structure and a heavy pyramidal roof?

Ato

What type of Bontoc structure used for council house and dormitory for young and old unmarried males?

Atong/Fayu

What type of Bontoc house used for Family residence?

Ulog/olog

What type of Bontoc structure used for female dormitory?

Abong

ifugao house for the poor

Agamang

What type of Ifugao structure used for female dormitory?

Tinokbob house

What is one of Sagada's earliest houses, windowless with a steep roof for cold weather?

Lumah

What is the elevated, one-room Yakan house with small windows and a high-pitched thatch roof?

Circular Minaret

What is the tall, circular tower of a mosque where the muezzin calls for prayer?

Octahedral base of Minaret

What is the minaret's base having eight sides or faces?

Mihrab

What is the mosque wall niche indicating the direction of Mecca for prayer?

hilal

What is the star and crescent emblem atop the onion dome symbolizing the Islamic world?

Minaret

A tall slender tower of a mosque where the prayer is pronounced

Musalla

What is the tall, slender mosque tower used for the call to prayer?

Kiblah

A Wall that shows the direction of Mecca

Onion dome roof

What bulbous ogee-shaped dome resembling an onion in a mosque?

Bangguera

A place for washing and storing dishes

Balkon

front porch or open gallery of a bahay kubo

Bulwagan

Multi purpose main room in a bahay kubo

Batangan

What is the bow-like wooden frame that connects the katig (outrigger) to the main boat structure in Badjao House Boats?

Katig

What is the outriggers of the bangka in Badjao House Boats?

Lawig

What is a small traditional maranao house?

Mala-a-walai

What is a traditional Maranao house without a panolong?

Torogan

What is the Sultan's house serving as a residence, office, and ritual venue?

Panolong

What are the extended end beams of a Torogan, the Maranao royal house?

Rampatan/ Tinai a walai

What is the intricately carved "intestine of the house," the central Torogan beam with a prow and twin fish fins?

Towak

What is a wooden staircase in Torogan?

dolog

What is a wooden floor joist in Torogan?

Bay sinug

What is the traditional Tausug stilt house with a pitched roof and tadjuk pasung finials?

Tadjuk Pasung

Carved wooden finials present in Bay Sinug

Onsod

A fence like motif in Torogan ornaments

Tiali-tali

A rope like motif in Torogan ornaments

Obar-obar

What is a flower design in the facade house ornaments present in Torogan?

Birdo

What is a growing vine or scroll-like motif in Torogan ornaments?

Langgal

Tausug, a mosque in rural areas, small group worshippers every Friday

Masjid

What is a formalized mosque with dome and minaret?

Kulintang

What are ensembles that create melodies using rows of gongs in Mindanao?

Agong

A set of two wide-rimmed, vertically suspended gongs

Dulang

A low plain table for dining