Indigenous filipino art

"It's in our blood to adorn ourselves with tattoos and embroidery, beads and gold."

While it is well-known that our ancestors often traded with the Chinese who came to our shores hundreds of years ago, lesser-known is the fact that it was actually the pre-colonial Filipinos who reached China’s shores first—not the other way around.

Asia | Yakan woman with traditional painted face, Mindanao, Philippines | National Geographic archives.

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The last trophy heads cut off by Igorot headhunters was supposedly in the late 1970's. These fierce warriors who inhabit the Philippine Cordilleras also built the Banaue rice terraces. A panoramic vista of stairways of rice fields carved into the steep mountainside and reaching up to the skies. Constructed almost entirely by hand 2000 years ago.