Textiles and Dress

Igorot people

The indigenous peoples of the Cordillera in northern Luzon, Philippines, often referred to by the exonym Igorot people, or more recently, as the Cordilleran peoples, are an ethnic group composed of 11 main ethnolinguistic groups whose domains are in the Cordillera Mountain Range, altogether numbering about 1.8 million people in the early 21st century. For their clothing, the bahag for males must be worn completely shirtless to honor historical tribal traditions. Meanwhile, the tapis worn by girls is an intricately handwoven, wrap-around skirt worn tightly from the waist down to the knees. Their languages belong to the northern Luzon subgroup of Philippine languages, which in turn belongs to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family. A 2014 genetic study has found that the Kankanaey (an Igorot ethnic group from Mountain Province), and by extension other indigenous Cordillera groups, descend almost entirely from the ancient Austronesian expansion originating in Taiwan around 3000-2000 BC.

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• ▸BGYO
• ▸Japanese bamboo weaving
• ▸Adam

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