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Different Ethnic Houses in The Philippines

The document summarizes different ethnic houses found in the Philippines. The Samal and Badjao build houses on stilts over water or farther out to sea as the sea is their livelihood. The Ifugao build pyramid-shaped houses on piles with no windows and animal skulls on the outside. Ilongot houses are built in clusters near fields or runways, elevated on pilings. Lumad refers to various indigenous tribes who build houses according to their local materials and customs.

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Different Ethnic Houses in The Philippines

The document summarizes different ethnic houses found in the Philippines. The Samal and Badjao build houses on stilts over water or farther out to sea as the sea is their livelihood. The Ifugao build pyramid-shaped houses on piles with no windows and animal skulls on the outside. Ilongot houses are built in clusters near fields or runways, elevated on pilings. Lumad refers to various indigenous tribes who build houses according to their local materials and customs.

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DIFFERENT ETHNIC

HOUSES IN THE
PHILIPPINES
BADJAO HOUSE

• The Samal and the Badjao are the people of the sea. • The Samal build their houses on stilts over the water, along
• The sea is their source of livelihood, the link to other people, and the shore, or farther out.
the place for celebration – and also home. • The Samal houses are grouped together in villages and are
connected by bridges and catwalks.
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IFUGAO HOUSE
• The term Igorot is an old Tagalog word meaning “people from
the mountains” and is a general term used to include all of the
mountain tribes from the Cordilleras
• The Igorots build their houses on piles. The pyramid-shaped
roof is used as a bedroom, kitchen, and storeroom.
• There are no windows.
• To please the Gods, the skull of a sacrifice pig is fixed on the
outside of the house.
• The Igorots are an ethnic people clustered in the Cordillera
region of Luzon.

3
ILONGOT/ILUNGOT • Ilongot live in thirteen named dialect groups each with
an average population of 180. Each of these groups
HOUSES includes several settlements, which in turn are made
up of four to nine households (five to fifteen nuclear
families, forty to seventy people). When people move
to a new area, their houses are built in clusters, but
• Where there is missionary influence, houses are built clustered as farther, more widely spaced new fields are
near runways. Houses sit on pilings up to 15 feet above the cleared, houses are built near the new fields, and the
settlement pattern becomes dispersed.
ground, and have walls of grass or bamboo. There are no inside
walls; each nuclear family (there are one to three per house) has
its own fireplace. There are also temporary field houses.

4
LUMAD HOUSES
• Lumad is a Cebuano term which means
‘native’ or ‘indigenous’. There Lumad
tribes comprise about 13 ethnic groups
which are the Blaan, Bukidnon, Higaonon,
Mamanwa, Mandaya, Manobo, Mansaka,
Sangir, Subanen, Tagabawa, Tagakaulo,
Tasaday, and T’boli. Their tribe is
generally known for tribal music produced
by musical instruments they’ve created.

5
MANGYAN HOUSE
• Walls are made of bark of trees, and constructed
about a meter less above the floor.
• Gabled roof with cogon grass thatching.
• Roofs are projected 1 meter beyond the wall for
protection against cold wind.
• Openings are provided through the space from the
flooring, and the underneath surface of the wall.

6
PALAWAN TRIBES

•They built their houses usually on a hillside


but close to the river or stream using four
skinny trunks of trees.
•The floor is roughly 15 to 20 feet from the
ground.
•Families used a slanted log to climb or to
enter their houses, except for single or
bachelor's shanties where a suspended rope
7 is preferred.
TUMANDOK HOUSES

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