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Higantes Festival, also known as the Feast of San Clemente, is celebrated every November 23 in the town of Angono, Rizal.

This is a
major festival in honor of San Clemente, the patron saint of fishermen. His image is carried by male devotees during a procession
accompanied by "pahadores" (devotees dressed in colorful local costumes or fishermen's clothes, wearing wooden shoes and
carrying boat paddles, fish nets, traps, etc.) and "higantes" (paper-mch giants measuring 10-12 feet in height and 4-5 feet in
diameter). This street event ends in a procession to Laguna de Bay until the image is brought back to its sanctuary.

Pahiyas Festival is a colorful feast celebrated every 15th of May by the people of Lucban, Quezon in honor of San Isidro Labrador. It
is the farmers' thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest with a grand display of colorful rice wafers, fruits, vegetables, and handicrafts
adorning every house in the town.

A butterfly knife, also known as a fan knife and in the Philippines as the balisong, is a folding pocket knife. Its distinction is two
handles counter-rotating around the tang such that, when closed, the blade is concealed within grooves in the handles. It is
sometimes called a Batangas knife, after the Tagalog province of Batangas in the Philippines, where it is traditionally made.
The suklang or basket hat is most common in Bontoc. The name "Bontoc" comes from bundok and means 'mountain'. Other names
for Bontoc are Bontoc Igorot or just Igorot. Bontoc people live in Northern Luzon, Philippines. Bontoc men wear their suklang for
everyday wear, and change to more spectacular headgear for feasts. rituals and ceremonies.

Vakul is a headgear used to protect the Ivatans from rain, wind and sun. Vakuls are used by women while its counterpart Talugong
are worn by Ivatan men.Vakuls are made out of Philippine Date Palm or Voyavoy leaves. The palm leaves are being dried under the
sun, shredded into thin parts and woven to make a Vakul.

Burnay Jars Burnay Pottery

Jars made from Vigan are much sought-after by foreign and local visitors. This earthenware is called burnay. The industry that has
grown from the making of burnay dates back to pre-colonial times when immigrants from China came to settle in Vigan. They
practiced the craft of making earthenware using the grade A clay that was found in plenty in the Western area of Vigan.
Pia Barong Tagalog is woven from the finest mature leaves of native pineapples. ... Crafted from the highest-quality Pina fabric
for an exceptionally finish

The Lingling-o is used as either an earrings or a necklace pendant by the Igorots living in the northern part of the Philippines. It can
also be found in other parts of the country and some parts of the Southeast Asia. The Ifugaos wear them as pendants of necklaces
while the Bontoc, Kalinga, and gaddang wear them as earrings.

FISH traps, called bobo, are lowered by fishermen in the waters of Socorro, Surigao del Norte province, one of the traditional
deep-sea fishing
The Ivatans are a Filipino ethnolinguistic group predominant in the islands of Batanes of the Philippines. The origins of the Ivatans
remained untraced among scholars. Ivatans were free before they were colonized by the SpaniardsThe culture of the Ivatans is
partly influenced by the environmental condition of Batanes. Unlike the old-type nipa huts common in the Philippines, Ivatans have
adopted their now-famous stone houses made of limestone, designed to protect against the hostile climate.

Patupat is another popular Filipino delicacy and pasalubong from northern part of Luzon. This delicacy is a ilocano version of
suman. Like other suman the glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and sugar then wrap in banana leaves and steamed until done.

The Manunggul Jar is a secondary burial jar excavated from a Neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon Caves at
Lipuun Point in Palawan. It dates from 890710 B.C.[2] and the two prominent figures at the top handle of its cover represent the
journey of the soul to the afterlife
The bulol, or "Ifugao rice god," is a carved human figurine into which a certain class of anito is said to incorporate itself when
worshipped. Bulols are kept in the house or granary, and are usually made in pairs. They are carved of narra wood, which represents
wealth, happiness, and well being.

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