Philippine Pre - Colonial Art

History

The oldest human fossil found in the Philippines

is the skull cap of a "Stone-Age Filipino", about
22,000 years old.

Discovered by Dr. Robert B. Fox, American

anthropologist of the National Museum, inside
Tabon Cave Palawan, on May 28, 1962.

The Coming of the Negritos

They came during the Old Stone Age

(Paleolithic) walking dry-shod through Malay
Peninsula, Borneo, and the land bridges and
were the first inhabitants.

The Indonesians

- First Sea-Immigrants

They were the maritime Indonesians, who

belonged to the Mongoloid race with Caucasian
affinities.

They belonged to the New Stone Age

The Malays

They belong to the Iron Age culture.

Daring and liberty-loving, the Malays belonged

to the brown race.

Prominent contribution:
- Ati-atihan festivals

- Maragtas chronicle

- The Code of Kalantiaw

Music

The ancient Filipinos had music practically for

all occasions, for every phase of life, from birth
to death.

Bamboo Zither

A Kolitong is a bamboo polychordal tube zither

from Bontok, Kalinga, Philippines with six
strings that run parallel to its tube body. The
strings are numbered from one to six, from
lowest to highest pitch. The body acts as the
instrument's resonator.

Gaddang

The Gaddang people are a linguistically

identified ethnic group of related families
sharing lengthy residence in the watershed of the
Cagayan River in Northern Luzon, Philippines.