National Living Treasures Award:

Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan

 Lesson Goals

• Enumerate the guidelines involved in declaring

an individual as a national living treasure.
• Discuss the nature and purpose of the award in
nation building.

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 National Treasure Award

▪ Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan

▪ Republic Act No. 7355
▪ April 1992
▪ National Commission for Culture and the Arts
▪ Search for the finest traditional artists

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 Criteria

▪ is an inhabitant of an indigenous/traditional cultural community

anywhere in the Philippines that has preserved indigenous customs,
beliefs, rituals and traditions and/or has syncretized whatever external
elements that have influenced it.

▪ must have engaged in a folk art tradition that has been in existence and
documented for at least 50 years

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 Criteria
▪ must have consistently performed or produced over a significant period,
works of superior and distinctive quality.

▪ must possess a mastery of tools and materials needed by the art, and must
have an established reputation in the art as master and maker of works of
extraordinary technical quality.

▪ must have passed on and/or will pass on to other members of the

community their skills in the folk art for which the community is
traditionally known.

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 Exemptions

▪ had created a significant body of works and/or has consistently displayed

excellence in the practice of their art, thus achieving important contributions for
its development.
▪ has been instrumental in the revitalization of their community's artistic
tradition.
▪ has passed on to the other members of the community skills in the folk art for
which the community is traditionally known.
▪ community has recognized them as master and teacher of their craft.

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 Categories

ethnomedicine performing arts

folk architecture literature

maritime transport graphic and plastic arts

weaving ornament

carving textile or fiber arts

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 Magdalena Gamayo, Abel Weaving – Pinili, Ilocos Norte,
2012
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 Alonzo Saclag, Music and Dance – Lubugan, Kalinga
Province, 2000
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 Frederico Caballero, Poetry/ Epic Chant – Sulod,
Bukidnon, 2000
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 Teofilo Garcia, Casque Making – San Quintin, Abra,
2012
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 Uwang Ahadas, Yakan Music – Lamitan, Basilan, 2000
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 Eduardo Mutuc, Metalwork – Apalit, Pampanga, 2004
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 Ginaw Bilog, Poetry, Oriental Mindor, 1993
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 Masino Intaray, Music and Story Telling, Palawan, 1993
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 Samaon Sulaiman, Music, Maguindanao, 1993
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 Samaon Sulaiman (d. 2011), musician, Mamasapano,
17 Maguindanao Music (Kutyapi), 1993
 Salinta Monon (d. 2009), weaver, Bansalan, Davao del
18 Sur, Weaving (Abaca – ikat / Inabal), 1998
 Darhata Sawabi, (d. 2005), weaver, Parang, Sulu,
Weaving (Pis Syabit), 2004
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 Haja Amina Appi (d. 2013), weaver, Tandubas, Tawi-
Tawi, Weaving (Mat), 2004
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 Start doing your CPA Term 2 Final Exam

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