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B. Food preservation
1. Salted coupled with drying as preservative
- Salted, smoke and/or dried fish and meat products are staples if filo
diets & cuisine
2. Salt coupled with fermentation as preservative
- Bagoong & patis
3. Fat as a preservative
- Certain way of cooking a dish with fat to preserve it for more than a
week.
C. Farming Practices
1. Swidden farming
- Described as the oldest form of agroforestry practice in Ifugao.
• Apuyan (burning) - done to avoid unwanted burning damages to
adjacent areas
• Latong (fencing) - fences are established
• Mungabut (weeding) - removal of unwanted grasses
2. Seed preservation and storage and crop protection
D. Energy Production
• Charcoal burning
- Charcoal is a domestic fuel for cooking & heating.
- Ham-ak approach generates more and better-quality charcoal but
requires close monitoring.
- Charcoal is the most popular barbecue fuel in the world.
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- Art of weaving in Cordillera (north)
- Piña cloth; produced Antique, popularly used in barong tagalog
- Abaca fiber; came from abaca plant, popular in making a rope,
handbag.
2. Jewelry making
- 2 major product category of fine jewelry:
• Precious metal jewelry (gold & silver)
• Pearls, precious stones & semi-precious stones; precious
gemstones
3. Pottery
- Usually w/ geometric design
- Palayok, kalan
4. Woodcarving
- Carvings of the anitos, saints, statues of Christ & Blessed mother
5. Tattoo
• "batok" - general term for tattoos
- Widespread in CAR w/ different terms
- Inscription of culture in the body, memories, tradition & ethnic
identity
- Tattoos were found on mummies
- Female mambabatoks were rare
- Used to be a painful rite of passage
F. Burial
- Mummifying of Ibalois using salt and herbs & fire
- Might take up to 2 years
- Wooden tomb
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