PALAWANO

IN PALAWAN
 Table of Content
HISTORY
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
TRADITION AND CULTURE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
MEDICAL PLANTS
 HISTORY
The Palaw’an, also known as
Palawano, is an indigenous ethnic
group found in the province of
Palawan. This group is divided into
four ethnolinguistic subgroups
namely; Quezon Palawan (also
known as the Central Palawano),
Bugsuk Palawano (South Palawano),
Brooke’s Point Palawano, and
Southwest Palawano.
Palaw'ans are originally
nomadic
Built their houses on a
hillside
Hunt wild animals
Naive when it comes to
socialization
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
The Palaw'ans are most likely to be
tanned, short, and curly hair.
Palaw'ans men wear g-strings while
women would wear patadyong, a
native wrap that is similar to the
malong.
TRADITION AND CULTURE
TRADITION CULTURE

Hunters Palaw'ans were

Forest Foranger animists who regularly
Cultivator performed rituals
Domesticate dogs adat et
rather than chicken kegurangurangan, or
and hogs the "customs of the
ancestors"
PAGANG SULING BASAL ARUDING

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
MEDICAL PLANTS
Their ritual dances also associates
to healing, their ritual dances were
used to communicate to their dead
relatives to help them with cure for
their sickness. Most of the
documented medical plants were
trees, herbs, shrubs and climbers.
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