All Exhibits: 27
Exhibits
Balaráw: dagger, word, and clues
by Marian Pastor Roces
Two Daggers with Sheath. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of New York.
Two daggers of stunning beauty, in storage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, propose one entry into the work of reassembling the the possible…
Warp ikat breadth and depth
by Marian Pastor RocesIkat warp blanket. British Museum; Acquired: 1914 Dimensions: 208 cm (including fringes) 124 cm; Materials: woven cotton
A textile and a photograph consist this exhibit. Created more or less simultaneously during the turn of the twentieth century,…
Esoteric Texts: An Exercise in Co-producing Knowledge
by Marian Pastor Roces et.al.
A shield and its inscriptions. .British Museum; Acquired: 19th c
This round, wooden shield — in the photograph, the inner face is shown, where the wielder's handle is affixed — has a form that appears in late nineteenth and early twentieth…
19th-century Whitework on Piña
by Sandra Castro"Bertha Collar. Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1961. Accession Number: 2009.300.2000.
Made from the finest fibres of the pineapple…
Of Religious Ivory Images, Influences, And Borrowing Of Styles
by Esperanza Bunag GatbontonFig 1. Carved ivory, with traces of colour and gilding. Victoria and Albert Museum
The religious ivory images included in this exhibit are impressive for their excellent quality and creative innovation. The accompanying museum data for the objects…
Fashion in Diaspora
by Florina H. Capistrano-BakerFig 1 One of seven embroidered blue silk trousers in the collection of the Leiden Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde). Accession No. RV-566-43.
Incomplete pieces of early sartorial ensembles from Manila and environs–acquired as exotica…
British Country Houses and Philippine Prizes
by Maria Cristina JuanPhotos of the Madonna and the Christ Child in the Cordell Room.The Country
Life. July 31, 1937.
In the United Kingdom, one of the repositories of early modern objects originating from Manila may be found, not so much in Museums, but in British…
Fu Yabing Dulo, A Living National Treasure
by Marian Pastor RocesWarp ikat-dyed abaka, a panel generally referred to as tabih amlatu by the Blaan. Tabih is a widely dispersed Austronesian word for cloth that wraps the body; and amlatu is Blaan for one hundred, referring to the number of warp threads involved in…
Representing the Colony: The Zamora Table Service at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
by Sandra CastroPunchbowl made with a Taclobo clam, silver mounted base. Owner and Photo credit: Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History Acc # USNM 1454928
When a 33-piece silver-plated serving…
Tik Techniques and Ethics
by Marian Pastor Roces Tritik-dyed cloth"Banda para llevar al niño" (cloth for carrying an infant), according to the notes of José Rizal, who collected the piece and donated it in 1888. Ethnological Museum of Berlin. Place of Origin: Mindanao. Acquired: 1888. Materials:…
Grave markers. At sea
by Marian Pastor RocesGrave marker from the Sulu Islands. Probably 19th or early 20th century. Wood. 119cm high. Fowler Museum at University of California in Los Angeles
It is possible, from one point of view, for one kind of burial ground to be the most beautiful on…
Provocative Beauty
by Marian Pastor RocesCarved ivory bust of St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary, on a pedestal. 1630 (circa). British Museum.
Francis Xavier had only been deceased 78 years, and had only been canonized as Saint for 18 years, when this bust was created in Manila in 1630.…
Talking heads
by Marian Pastor RocesHead Dress (Solang-solang). Acquired:1909-1911. Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago)
Heads and headgear for men concentrated immense attention, among Philippine peoples in antiquity. How long ago is unknown, but when it stopped is clear. By…
The kampilan speaks to history
by Marian Pastor Roces
Sword (kampilan) made of metal, wood, human hair.. Acquired: 1912. British Museum
The chronicler Antonio de Pigafetta may or may not have witnessed the actual death of Fernão de Magalhães on Mactan Island, Central Philippines, 500 years ago…
The raw, in time
by Marian Pastor RocesEl arraigo de las costumbres (The Rootedness of Customs) in which a man carries a small open coffin with the lifeless body of a young child. By Ciriaco Gaudínez y Javier, Around 1887. The Prado MuseumNaif. But in any case sad — less because of the…
Goldsmithing Spirituality and Capital
by Marian Pastor RocesRosary, 17th–19th century. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1915. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Philippine Spanish colonial rosaries and necklaces interred in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection are perfectly located for thinking…
Choice
by Marian Pastor RocesDetail of blanket (owës) with designs in raised blue thread -on one side only- © The Field Museum - CC BY-NC, 108887, Catalog No. 108887
InflectionThe verb pilì, “to choose or select”, exists in many of the Philippines’ 170+ languages. The word…
The taxonomic eye
by Marian Pastor RocesIgorot man (Kalinga?). Watercolour by Ernst Krammann. Ethnological Museum of Berlin.
[Part 1]
TypesThe watercolors were about people found or met in the place called las islas filipinas. But the image type called tipos del país is best…
Costumes, colleciónes del trajes, costumbres, costumbrista
by Marian Pastor RocesMoro de Joló and Mora de Jola by Félix Martínez y Lorenzo (ca. 1859 - 1916). Acquired 1887. National Anthropology Museum Madrid
The taxonomic eye Part 2In the Philippines, where the tipos del país of previous centuries are collector prizes, the…
On leadership, in the vernacular
by Marian Pastor RocesStick broom (walis). Dated 1884. Acquired from Stolpe, Hjalmar (1841 - 1905), who purchased several items from the Tagalog village of Cabcaben in the Mariviles mountains.. Museum of Ethnography Stockholm
On exhibit is a bundle of long ribs of the…
Tracing Philippine Objects in Unlikely Places
by Alberto Vela Rodrigo*Detail on collection in Regina Coeli Museum (Photo by Alberto Vela Rodrigo)
Although Spain has an important Hispanic-Philippine legacy kept in its large museums, it also has a significant number of objects distributed in small parishes or…
Interrogating Translucence: Biological and Cultural Definitions of Piña
by Abi Lua*Scarf Length, Philippines, mid 1800s, Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Introduction
In the last three decades, scholars have written broadly on the subject of Philippine piña textiles. However, underlying much of this work is a modern confusion…
What's On View: The City of Madrid
by Maria Cristina Juan
Room 61-of the Villanueva Building at Museo del Prado. Photo taken in July 2021, courtesy of Pedro José Martínez Plaza. Técnico de Museos, Área de Pintura del siglo XIX, Museo del Prado. Doctor en Historia del Arte (UCM), Máster Experto Tasador en…
Muna Kalyak Blaan: Reconnecting Cultural Identity through Cultural Materials
by Dyisi Salway
Dyisi Salway and Cristina. Juan preparing the images for the Blaan Kastulen.
PROCESS DOCUMENTATION of GATHERING to RECONNECT PHILIPPINE BLAAN CULTURAL MATERIALS STORED OUTSIDE THE COUNTRYby Dyisi SalwayDate: June 27-28, 2022Venue: Horizon…
On Finding Damian Domingo at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
by Cristina Juan and Kelly J. Sembrano Bailey* From Colección de trajes [de] Manila y de las provincias ynbentado por D. Rafael Daniel Baboom y dibujado por D. Damian Domingo page 21 of the Manila Album. V&A Museum, National Art Library, MSL/1984/27/3 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London This…
Bagobo Material Culture at the American Museum of Natural History
by Ringo Bunoan with Talisa Chan*Umpac ca mama, man’s jacket with red and white tutuc (applique) bands (AMNH identifier: 70.1/ 83)
(Shared data for this segment of the AMNH's extensive Philippine collection was given to the Mapping Project via a SOAS IKE grant fund for a…