Republic of the Philippines

Tarlac State University

College of Computer Studies
San Isidro Campus, Tarlac City

Research Report
Visayas Arts
(BOHOL)

Submitted by:
Leader
Members

BSIT-TSM-1B

Submitted to:
Mr. Justine Red M. Versola

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 Summary
This report discusses the province of Bohol. It indicates that Bohol have different arts and
tourist spot that can be a beautiful art for the others. Bohol also have different cultures and crafts
that everyone can be an artist on their own talents and on their own way.
Key findings include:
• Bohol Province, the 10th largest island in the Philippines, is situated in the center of Visayas
region and between the southeastern Cebu and the southwestern Leyte.
• Bohol Province is divided into 1 city, 47 municipalities and 1109 barangays, with its capital
named Tagbilaran. The total population is 1,139,130(statistics of 2000), of which 77,700 live in
the city and 93% are literate. The major languages used are Boholano, English, Tagalog and
Chinese.
• Bohol's handicrafts are famous throughout the country, including mats, baskets, raffia woven
cloth, fashion accessories, woodcraft, processed food, and ceramics.
• The Chocolate Hills a bucket list-worthy destination in the Philippines. That’s because these
hills stay true to their moniker. It’s called the Chocolate Hills because the hills turn chocolatey
brown in color when their grass withers during the summer season.
• Next to The Chocolate Hills, first-time visitors can also look forward to meeting the world’s
smallest primate – the Philippine Tarsiers.
• Bohol’s lush environment is also a haven to several creatures such as dolphins and whales,
several turtle species, bees, and butterflies to name a few. In some resorts, they offer whale-
watching and dolphin-watching as part of their tourist activities.
• Most of the residents of Antequera depend upon the basket weaving industry. It is their main
source of income. For years, this has been the town’s main industry and with its growth through
the years, has earned them the title of being the “Basket Capital of Bohol”.
• Pedro L. Angco Jr. of barangay Laya in Baclayon town, Bohol, is the artistic mind behind the
trash to art pieces posted by Kien Alphe Garusta. His artworks made of slippers he collected
from the sea is dubbed “Seanelas,” based on the local term for slippers or sandals.
The information presented in this report has been gathered from secondary sources or on the
internet.
The report has been prepared for submission to Sir Justine Red Versola a HUM 1 Proctor of
BSIT-TSM-1B in Tarlac State University.

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Table of Contents

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 Introduction

Bohol Province, the 10th largest island in the Philippines, is situated in the center of
Visayas region and between the southeastern Cebu and the southwestern Leyte. It is the province
with the shortest distance to Cebu City, which can be covered in just one and a half hours by
ferry and 20 minutes by air. It boasts a landmass of 4,117.3 square kilometers and is made up of
the oval main island and 73 small islands. Its terrain is slightly rolling, so it is suitable for
developing industry and commerce. Inside the mountainous areas of the island, there exist many
rare species of endangered animals and plants. The higher land is fit for developing forestry and
agriculture. The lower land in the central and northern part has fertile soil and enjoys sufficient
water. Over 100 caves have been discovered in Bohol, with the largest one in the east, so the
province us an ideal place for cave adventure. There are affluent nonmetallic resources like
limestone, guano, silica, and clay. The province has a large volume of surface water, with a lot of
rivers, streams, and springs. The annual average temperature is 29 degrees centigrade.
Bohol Province is divided into 1 city, 47 municipalities and 1109 barangays, with its
capital named Tagbilaran. The total population is 1,139,130(statistics of 2000), of which 77,700
live in the city and 93% are literate. The major languages used are Boholano, English, Tagalog
and Chinese.
The main sectors consist of agriculture, industry, fishery, and tourism. The agricultural
products include rice, corn, coconut, mango, and poultry. The industrial sectors are limestone
mining, glucose manufacturing, galvanized iron sheets factory, soft drink bottling plant, food
processing, metalcraft, and furniture processing. The major marine products are fish, prawn,
lobster, crab and seaweed. Bohol is famous for its tourism industry in the Visayas region. Its
tourism concentrates on eco-culture tour. The province boasts not only pristine white sand beach,
azure blue waters, coral reef and marine life on the seabed, and waterfall, spring, earth cave and
forest, but also the well-known chocolate mountain, the best-preserved Jesuits Church and the
tarsier-----the smallest monkey in the world, which only exists in Bohol.
Bohol's handicrafts are famous throughout the country, including mats, baskets, raffia
woven cloth, fashion accessories, woodcraft, processed food, and ceramics. There are also
countless gift shops all over the island where native delicacies and souvenirs are available.

“We dream of becoming the CENTER OF ARTS IN BOHOL and we aim to become a
SHELTER ORGANIZATION to EVERY ARTIST”
The Boholano community is truly blessed to have another dedicated guild who vowed to
commit its existence to the active evolution of arts in all its faces- hail to the fast-rising BOHOL
ARTS GUILD!
Primarily, local and foreign tourists should see for themselves what makes The Chocolate
Hills a bucket list-worthy destination in the Philippines. That’s because these hills stay true to
their moniker. It’s called the Chocolate Hills because the hills turn chocolatey brown in color
when their grass withers during the summer season. And, while the hills do vary in size, it seems
like they’re almost symmetrical in shape when viewed from afar. It’s a fascinating sight and
might make anyone think it’s really a product of natural forces and not a man-made creation.
Next to The Chocolate Hills, first-time visitors can also look forward to meeting the
world’s smallest primate – the Philippine Tarsiers. While the species are endemic to the
Southeast Asian country, these nocturnal creatures can only be found in the islands of Bohol,
Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao. And due to habitat destruction, hunting, and other forms of human
disturbance, tarsiers have become endangered in the country, too. If you’d like to see them in
their natural habitat, visit the Tarsius syrichta species clinging to branches in Bohol’s Tarsier
Conservation Area.
While most tourists head over to the province of Bohol to catch sight of the world-
famous Chocolate Hills, many are often surprised to discover tons of activities to do on the
island. Apart from the picturesque landscape, first-time visitors will love its pristine white-sand
beaches, jungle activities, and unique food delicacies.

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 Apart from being home to the Philippine tarsiers, Bohol’s lush environment is also a
haven to a number of creatures such as dolphins and whales, several turtle species, bees, and
butterflies to name a few. In some resorts, they offer whale-watching and dolphin-watching as
part of their tourist activities. You’ll spot these sea creatures around Pamilacan Island and if
you’d like to visit the turtles and let them be your swimming companions, you’d better head over
to Balicasag Island Marine Sanctuary. Bohol Bee Farm is where you’ll find the bees, whereas
hundreds of butterflies can be found in the Butterfly Garden in Bilar.
Most of the residents of Antequera depend upon the basket weaving industry. It is their
main source of income. For years, this has been the town’s main industry and with its growth
through the years, has earned them the title of being the “Basket Capital of Bohol”.

Antequera’s market on Sundays is a hive of activity. Baskets of all shapes and sizes litter
the area and it is only in this place where one can get a good buy. Buyers on wheels and on foot
come to give and get their orders and to see new designs. Curious tourists drop by to see the
wares, seek out weavers and then take pictures. When they publish their trips on the internet,
they unwittingly helped to advertise and promote further the basket industry of Antequera.
In Bohol there are also a famous artist. An artist from Bohol is using his artistic mind to
help highlight his advocacy to promote cleaner seas. Pedro L. Angco Jr. of barangay Laya in
Baclayon town, Bohol, is the artistic mind behind the trash to art pieces posted by Kien Alphe
Garusta.His artworks made of slippers he collected from the sea is dubbed “Seanelas,” based on
the local term for slippers or sandals. Garusta, who is the Sangguniang Kabataan chairperson of
Municipality of Alburquerque in Bohol, shared Angco’s artworks in a post online last August 23,
2020. It has since been viral as it has been shared 3,000 times and has gotten 3,600 reactions as
of Tuesday afternoon, August 25.
“We came from an SK activity when we saw some art pieces being displayed along the
street. We stopped and asked sir Angco about his art, there he said that he collects ocean trash to
make it look new through his artworks,” said Garusta. While they were looking around, they saw
a lot of slippers that Angco used to create his masterpieces.

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 Findings

This presents a comprehensive discussion on the findings based on data gather and presented
in the previous content. The conclusion drawn from the group of artworks in Bohol formulated
by the researchers based on the findings and conclusion are truly explained.

1.1 Bohol Places and Houses “Ancestral Houses”

Bohol Ancestral Houses are numerous in the province. Some are dilapidated and have been
abandoned yet others were lovingly preserved by the descendants of the prominent homeowners.
These houses are replete with the homeowner’s memorabilia, furniture, kitchen utensils and
other collections that illustrate the glorious past of our predecessors and need to be preserved.
Interiors are characterized by wide and thick wooden floor planks, wide stairways with wooden
balusters, wooden sofa sets, cabinets, rocking chairs, with walls often graced by portraits and
other collections. Rooms are airy and cool because of the wide windows and often furnished with
wide wooden carved beds with wooden holders for the mosquito nets.
1.2 Bohol’s Character
Bohol’s character is essentially rural. Rice, corn (maize), and coconuts are the principal
crops. A secondary livestock industry is centered at Ubay, on rougher terrain near the east coast.
Extensive, low-grade deposits of manganese are mined in the southeast. Loon and Talibon are
important towns.
1.3 Bohol’s Communication and Language
Boholano is a dialect of Cebuano that is spoken on the island of Bohol in the Philippines,
which is a Visayan speech variety, although it is sometimes described as a separate language.
Boholano, especially the dialects used in Central Bohol, can be distinguished from other
Cebuano dialects by a few phonetic changes.
1.4 Boholano People
The Boholano people, also called Bol- anon, refers to the people who live in the island
province of Bohol. They are part of the wider Visayans ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the
largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.
1.5 Bohol’s Man-made Forest
On a bright sunny noon, this place is still like early morning, barely a suns magnificent light
passes through, like a cloudy day.

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SUBCATEGORY:

ELIGIO B. LOFRANCO
Eligio B. Lofranco, known as Dong/Lieux, (born December 1, 1943 in Loon, Bohol) was
a Filipino Polymath, a Public Prosecutor in Quezon City and later became a Division Chief.[1]
Lieux was born in Loon, Bohol. The 3rd of the 13 children born to a wealthy family. He was a
poet, a writer, a labor leader, bowler, painter, and fisherman.

NAPOLEON ABUEVA
Napoleon Abueva (February 16, 2018) was known as the "Father of Modern Philippine
Sculpture" Through Proclamation No. 1539. He was proclaimed National Artist for Sculpture in
1976 when he was 46, making him the youngest recipient of the award to date.
Sculpture:

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 The Sandugo was a blood compact, performed in the island of Bohol in the Philippines,
between the Spanish explorer Miguel López de Legazpi and Datu Sikatuna the chieftain of Bohol
on March 16, 1565, to seal their friendship as part of the tribal tradition.

NENE LUNGAY
She was born Hermogena Aceron Borja on September 2, 1929, in Tagbilaran, to a clan of
artists and artisans. Her grandfather, Ramon, was a painter, one of those employed to assist
Cebuano masters Raymundo Francia and Canuto Avila as they painted murals on the ceilings
and interior walls of several churches of Bohol in the early 20th century.
The Baji arts “Ang Bildo nga Kisame” where red female figures are barred from going
further up the ladder by a glass ceiling only occupied by black male figures

PEDRO L. ANGCO JR.

Pedro Angco Jr. is an artist and environmentalist from Baclayon, Bohol. He creates
unique and intricate works of art from ocean rubbish, particularly old slippers. Advocating for
cleaner seas through colorful artwork fashioned from collected ocean debris: slippers, discarded
wires, plastic, and the like.

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 SHERWIN TUTOR
A Native Boholano Artist.
Paintings from Amarela's art gallery showing impressions of prominent people from pre-
colonial Bohol like Tamblot, Pagbuaya, and Dailisan... There's also an impression of the original
center of the Kedatuan of Dapitan before and after the Sultanate of Ternate's attack.

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Conclusions

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Group Artworks

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 Reference List:

References for Intro

http://cebu.chineseconsulate.org/eng/lqgk/t261031.htm
https://www.google.com/amp/s/theculturetrip.com/asia/philippines/articles/11-amazing-reasons-
to-visit-bohol-philippines/%3famp=1
https://www.bohol-philippines.com/antequera-baskets.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/cebudailynews.inquirer.net/335962/artist-from-bohol-makes-art-
out-of-slippers-pulled-out-from-the-sea/amp

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