On a Wednesday morning, he keeps his post at the green-roofed gatehouse and makes sure hurrying schoolchildren could fulfill the day’s ritual before ... members of the Mandaya tribe.

In a Mansaka-Mandaya ritual that lasted for over an hour, the balyans (lumad priests and priestesses) danced and chanted around a tree, propped up in the midst of what looked like a wide riverbed ...

The term "Kadayawan" is derived from the Mandaya word "madayaw", a warm and ... Apo would converge during a bountiful harvest. This ritual serves as their thanksgiving to the gods particularly ...

Highlight of the event was a cultural tableau featuring the Mandaya cultural community. Known as “inhabitants of the uplands,” the Mandayas are found throughout Davao Oriental and Davao del Norte.

Mandaya weaver Samporonia Madanlo and Tboli ... particularly those with deep ritual significance. “What I am afraid of is how our designs are commandeered through the internet and social media ...

DAVAO CITY — Local designer Wilson Niñofranco Limon is coming up with a clothing line that will combine cotton fabric and the Dagmay textile of the Mandaya indigenous people in Davao Oriental. Dagmay ...