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Indigenous Cultural Communities, Traditions, and Living Treasures (GAMABA)

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  1. What national award institutionalized under Republic Act No. 7355 confers the highest state honor on traditional folk masters and indigenous artists?
  2. Which master weaver from Lake Sebu, South Cotabato was honored as a GAMABA awardee in 1998 for her mastery of intricate T'nalak sacred cloth designs?
  3. What sacred textile of the T'boli people in South Cotabato is hand-woven from abaca fibers dyed with bark and roots, guided by patterns revealed in weavers' dreams?
  4. Which centenarian traditional tattoo artist (mambabatok) from Buscalan, Tinglayan, Kalinga is globally recognized as the last master of thousand-year-old Batok tattooing?
  5. Which weaver from Pinili, Ilocos Norte is a National Living Treasure for preserving the Ilocano inabel weaving tradition?
  6. Which Filipino musician received the National Living Treasure (GAMABA) award?
  7. Which Filipino folk musician of the Yakan people received the National Living Treasures Award?
  8. Which epic chanter from the Panay Bukidnon (Sulod) indigenous community was awarded the GAMABA for chanting epics?
  9. Which Filipino metalsmith and sculptor was honored as a National Living Treasure (GAMABA)?
  10. Which Filipino hatter was honored as a National Living Treasure (GAMABA) for making tabungaw hats?
  11. What distinctive curvilinear and geometric folk art motif of the Maranao people features stylized organic designs such as the pako rabong (fern) and naga (serpent)?
  12. What mythical fowl in Maranao mythology holds a fish in its beak or talons?
  13. What is the stately royal ancestral house of the Maranao elite (Datu or Sultan) called?
  14. What poetic form of seven-syllable lines by the Hanunoo Mangyan of Mindoro is chanted and sometimes written on bamboo?
  15. What ancestral chants sung by elder women of the Ifugao during the rice harvest and funeral wakes were inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008?
  16. Which ancient 72,000-line Maranao epic recounting the heroic adventures of Prince Bantugan was inscribed by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity?
  17. What traditional peace pact system practiced among the indigenous ethnolinguistic groups of the Cordillera ensures non-aggression, boundary settlement, and tribal justice?
  18. What collective term is used to describe the non-Muslim, non-Christian indigenous tribal peoples inhabiting the highlands of Mindanao, comprising around 18 ethnolinguistic groups?
  19. Which indigenous nomadic, seafaring people have lived off the sea by trading and subsistence fishing?
  20. What traditional dugout houseboat of the Sama-Bajau features intricate carvings and served historically as a floating home for maritime families?
  21. Which indigenous people of the Zamboanga Peninsula in western Mindanao take their name from the riverbanks ('suba') where they traditionally establish settlements?
  22. What indigenous one-room windowless house of the Ifugao is elevated on four sturdy posts with wooden rat guards (halipan) and joined without nails?
  23. What geometric woven mat tradition from Lamitan, Basilan is famous for its intricate warp-in-weave designs such as the seputangan and sinaluan?
  24. What ancient red burial cloth found in a wooden coffin in Romblon is recognized as the oldest surviving warp ikat textile in the Philippines and Southeast Asia?
  25. What sacred ritual of the Subanen community involves dancing on a suspended flexible wooden log platform (giting) during thanksgiving gatherings?

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