Philippine hat, ca. 1900

"Salakót is a traditional lightweight headgear from the Philippines used for protection against the sun and rain. It has a typical dome-shaped or cone-shaped and has a size from having very wide brims to being almost helmet-like.

The Salakot is made from various materials including bamboo, rattan, nito ferns, and bottle gourd."(Peralta,32) The salakot is derived from the version of the headgear from the Tagalog and Kapampangan people.

The names of similar headgear in other ethnic groups of the Philippines include: (Nocheseda)
Talugong - salakot of the Ivatan people. It is worn by men paired with a vest of voyavoy palm leaves called kana-i or kanayi. Women, in turn, wear a straw cowl called a vakul. Hallidung - also known as lido, are the salakot of the Ifugao people. Usually made from twilled rattan or bamboo and covered in a coating of resin to make it waterproof.

Kalugung - are the salakot of the Kalinga people. They were usually made of rattan and nito, or from light wood. They were either shaped like a dome or a gently sloping cone. Kattukong - also known as katukong, tukong, or tabungaw, are the salakot of the Ilocano and Tinguian people, usually made from dried gourd reinforced with nito woven at the rim.

Sadok or Sarok - refers to the different salakot designs of the Visayan, Bikolano, and Mandaya people. Cebuano Sarok - Also known as Takokong in Sialo-dialect Cebuano. Features a lightweight and design-central design. It is made of woven nito vines and dried leaves creating a patterned net-like structure, with a signature six-petal flower design made from lighter leaves or thin wood plates secured at the very top of the hat.

Bicolano Sadok - This salakot is made from anahaw leaves and bamboo and either features a pointed shape resembling Mt Mayon, or a rounded shape with an inner attached hat fitted around the wearer's head. This is also the style of salakot worn in Leyte and Sorsogon.

Mandaya Sadok - The Mandaya sadok is uniquely elongated from front to back, and are often decorated with feathers, tassels, and beads. Saro - are the salakot of the Tausug people Saruk - are the salakot of the Yakan and Sama-Bajau people made from plaited rattan, nito and cotton. The Yakan version is characteristically dome-shaped with a wide crown. Both men and women can wear the saruk. Among men, they are worn over the traditional pis syabit headscarves.

Sayap - also known as binalano or tapisan, are the salakot of the Maguindanao people. They are made from twilled bamboo and nito.

S'laong - are the salakot of T'boli people. They are gender-specific. Men wore the shallow conical s'laong naf, made from bamboo and rattan with geometric black-and-white designs. Women wore the wide-brimmed s'laong kinibang which was made from bamboo covered with a cloth lining that distinctively hang down the sides and back, usually decorated with bead fringes.

Excerpt from the book : Salakot and Other Headgear (PDF). National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) & Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (ICHCAP), UNESCO. p. 232.

"The Filipino And The Salacot". Tagalog Dictionary. Retrieved March 3, 2020. Accessed March 9, 2022

Identifier 55.128.5, Philippine Hat, ca.1900

Annotation: "Salakot" terminology and different types added as supplemental information, added 03.09.2022
by: Noel Jordan Racca

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