PHILIPPINE PRIMITIVE ART
The Philippines as a colony of Spain, U. S, and Japan saw the decline and destruction of its ancient
costumes and traditions because of the strong influence of violence and intimidation, bent the
people to their will and, thus, in effect left a country hungry for its own identity.
Primitive art is the art of societies that are typologically, rather than chronologically, primitive.
Cave Paintings In the municipality of Binangonan, Province of Rizal, the Angono Petroglyphs site
museum is located. ---It is generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes
both.
(The (Abuhan, 2020) Angono Petroglyphs of Binangonan, Province of Rizal)
(Explanation: When you say cave paintings, it was a type of a parietal art found in the wall or ceiling
of caves. The petroglyphs are geometric and anthropomorphic figures found in two areas: one set
are engraved on a wall of a rock shelter in Angono, Rizal while the other is carved on a boulder on
top of promontories in Alab, Mountain Province.)
PETROGLYPS - is an image created by removing part a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, as a
form or rock art.
Petroglyphs are rarer in Southeast Asia where most rupestrine art is done through hand
prints or paintings.
(EXPLANATION: Petroglyph is central to the monument's sacred landscape where traditional
ceremonies still take place, and it is a powerful cultural symbol that reflects the complexity of
societies and religions of the surrounding stripes. There are some sets of Petroglyphs were found in
Alab, Mountain province carved on boulders on top of promontories.)
The Petrographs are of two kinds:
a) Charcoal drawings on cave walls in Penablanca, Cagayan Province, and the Singnapan Caves
in southern Palawan;
(Charcoal drawing on Penablanca, Cagayan Province)
The charcoal petrographs of Cagayan province are of different configuration that cannot be
related exactly elsewhere and which at present could not be dated.
b) Red hematite prints in Anda Peninsula, Bohol province Charcoal drawings on cave walls –
o Red hematite hand prints - are comparable with those found all over Asia,
Australia and Europe.
Did you know that red hematite paint it is a stone for the mind because hematite stimulates
concentration and focus enhancing memory and original thought.
Burial Jars -are human burials where the corpse is placed into a large earthenware and then is
interred.
(Examples of burial jars)
The second burial jar was found in Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan,
Philippines in the early 1960.
The Manunggul Jar shows that the Filipinos' maritime culture is paramount that it reflected its
ancestors' religious beliefs.
(The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar excavated from a
Neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at Lipuun Point in Palawan,
Philippines. It dates from 890–710 B.C. and the two prominent figures at the top handle of its cover
represent the journey of the soul to the afterlife.)
Earthenware Pots Resembling human figures were found in Ayub cave in Pinol, Maitum, Saranggani
Province. The Jars were used as secondary burial Jars and were dated to the metal aged about 5 B.C-
225 A.D.
(The Maitum anthropomorphic burial jars are earthenware secondary burial vessels discovered in
1991 by the National Museum of the Philippines' archaeological team in Ayub Cave, Barangay Pinol,
Maitum, Sarangani Province, Mindanao, Philippines.)
References
Abuhan, N. D. (2020, December 09). THE PHILIPPINES PRIMITIVE ART. Retrieved from YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBaWIN0i91o
Unknown. (2021, September 22). Maitum anthropomorphic pottery. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitum_anthropomorphic_pottery
Unknown. (2021, November 27). Manunggul Jar. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
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