GAWAD SA MANLILIKHA NG

BAYAN
 SAMAON SULAIMAN
• 1993 Awardee from Province of Maguindanao
• Maguindanaon is highly sophisticated in weaving,
okir designs, jewelry, metalwork and brassware
• Sulaiman has achieved the highest level of
excellence in the art of playing kutyapi
• Kutyapi is one of the most difficult to master
among Filipino traditional instruments. Its name
varies depending on the tribe who uses it.
• He learned to play kutyapi when he
was 13 years old.
• At 35 years old, he become the most
acclaimed kutyapi master and
teacher of his instrument in Libutan,
and other barangays in Maganoy
town
• He is also proficient in kulintang,
agong, gandingan and tambul
 MASINO INTARAY
• 1993 Awardee from Province of Palawan
• A prolific and pre-eminent epic chanter and story
teller
• Recognized for his outstanding mastery of various
traditional instruments of the Palaw’an people such
as basal, kulilal and bagit
• A gifted poet, bard artist and musician
• He has the creative memory, endurance and clarity
of intellect and spiritual purpose
 GINAW BILOG
• 1993 Awardee from province of Oriental Mindoro
• A Hanunoo Mangyan poet who is considered a
master of the ambahan poetry
• Ambahan is a poetic literary form composed of
seven-syllable line used to convey metaphors and
images (balak)
• Ambahan messages ranges from courtship, giving
advice to the young, asking for a place to stay,
saying goodbye to a friend and so on
• Key to understanding of the Mangyan soul
Ginaw Bilog
• Ambahan poetry is engraved on
bamboo tubes, recorded and written
on his old, dog-eared notebooks
 DARHATA SAWABI
• 2005 Awardee from Sulu
• A Tausug weaver of pis syabit – a traditional
cloth worn as a head cover.
• She is one of those who took pis syabit making
by heart
• She has never married
• She remains faithful to the art of pis syabit
weaving
 UWANG AHADAS
• 2000 Awardee from the province of Basilan
• He has near-blindness eyesight which made
music his constant companion
• He is from Yakan tribe to whom music is of
much significance because it is connected to
both agricultural and social realm.
• He is a hand-on teacher of kwintangan, kayu
and tuntungan
• He has close ties with different people not only
to his Yakan tribe
 FEDERICO CABALLERO
• 2000 Awardee from Province of Iloilo
• Sulod Bukidnon epic chanter
• A bantugan, a person who attains distinction.
He strives to dispense justice in the
community through his work as manughusay –
an arbiter of conflicts
• Documents oral literature particularly the
epics of his people the Labaw Dunggon and
Humadapnon
 HAJA AMINA APPI
• 2000 Awardee from Tawi-Tawi
• A master mat weaver among the Sama
indigenous community for her unique designs,
straightness of her edging and fineness of sasa
and kima-kima
• Her mats has complex geometric pattern,
proportion and sensitivity to color
• Needs applied genius for mathematics
 MAGDALENA GAMAYO
• Awardee from the Province of Iloilo
• Master weaver who makes “inabel” an Ilokano
handwoven cloth
• Her blankets have a very high thread count
and her designs are the most intricate that
sometimes take up to five colors
• At 88 years old, she is still capable of arranging
the threads in a loom
 TEOFILO GARCIA
• 2012 Awardee, a farmer from the town of
San Quintin, Abra
• His artistic rendering of a functional object,
dedication to craft and commitment to the
community makes him a bearer of culture
• He transformed enlarged gourd or upo into
durable hats protecting people, especially
farmers from the heat of the sun.
Those are the GAMABA AWARDEES who
possessed the necessary qualifications
required by the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts, the highest policy -
making and coordinating body for culture
and the arts of the Philippines.
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