Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of Philippine Art
Pre- Conquest
• Art of the ancient Filipinos were woven into the fabric of
everyday life.
• They do not refer to “art” as we do today, as an expression of an
individual, and seen largely in museums and concert halls.
• They did not distinguish forms into different categories like
music, theater, visual arts .
• Everyday expressions were all integrated within rituals that
marked significant moments in a community’s life like planting
and harvesting.
• Rite of passage, funerals ceremonies, and
weddings.
• Cañao or Kanyaw- is found in CAR Region
(officiated by Mumbaki)
• Involves animal sacrifice, where the entrails are
read through the process of divination that is
performed either for healing, to announce the birth
of a child, or a coming of age, during wakes,
weddings, and burial ceremonies.
Cañao
Kashawing Ritual