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Ambalang Ausalin MASINO INTARAY

Ambalang Ausalin is a renowned weaver from Yakan in the Philippines who was named a National Living Treasure in 2016. She was born in 1943 and is respected for her commitment to safeguarding and promoting traditional Yakan textiles, especially tapestry weaves. Using a backstrap loom and natural materials like coconut leaves, she is renowned for her intricate bunga sama and seputangan weaves featuring floral designs and geometric patterns. Masino Intaray was a musician from Palawan who was awarded the National Living Treasures award in 1993. Born in 1943, he performed local traditions using gongs, mouth harps, and flutes, and preserved indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals,

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Ambalang Ausalin MASINO INTARAY

Ambalang Ausalin is a renowned weaver from Yakan in the Philippines who was named a National Living Treasure in 2016. She was born in 1943 and is respected for her commitment to safeguarding and promoting traditional Yakan textiles, especially tapestry weaves. Using a backstrap loom and natural materials like coconut leaves, she is renowned for her intricate bunga sama and seputangan weaves featuring floral designs and geometric patterns. Masino Intaray was a musician from Palawan who was awarded the National Living Treasures award in 1993. Born in 1943, he performed local traditions using gongs, mouth harps, and flutes, and preserved indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals,

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Ambalang Ausalin

1. BIOGRAPHY
• born March 4, 1943 in Yakan in Parangbasak, Lamitan City
 "Apuh Ambalang" called by her community of weavers
 She is respected for her commitment in safeguarding and promotion of weaving the
traditional Yakan textiles,especially the colorful tennun or tapestry weave.
 Ambalang Ausalin is one of the three Mindanaoans who were proclaimed as “Manlilikha ng
Bayan” or National Living Treasure in 2016.

Trivia

 Weaving is an extremely important craft in the Yakan community. All Yakan women in the past
were trained in weaving.

Medium

 Strips of lugus and coconut leaves mat-


making material).

 Backstrap tension loom


Common Subject or Theme

 Bunga Sama

The bunga sama is a design or category of weaving with


floral and bold designs. The cloth is usually fashioned
into upper wear and pants, though only for the dress of
a high status Yakan, specially the suwah bekkat and the
suwah pendan.

 Sinalu'an

The plain vertical lines or columns called bettik


(resembling the contour of the land when planting in
straight lines).

 Seputangan

The seputangan is her other exemplary


specialty, as it was her mother’s too. This
cloth is a meter square in size with
geometric designs, and is the most
expensive part of the Yakan female
ensemble because of its detailed design.
Example of Art work
MASINO INTARAY
1. BIOGRAPHY
 Born on April 10, 1943 near the river in Makagwa valley on the foothill of Mantalingayan
mountain.
 Lived in Brooke’s Point in Palawan with wife and 4 sons.
 Intaray was awarded the Gawadsa Manlilikha ng Bayan, or National Living Treasures Award,in
1993.
 Passed away on November 30,2013 due to complications from diabetes which included
multiplebouts of stroke. He was aged 70.

2.MUSICIAN

 He was a Filipino poet, bard artist, and musician known for hisperformance of the local traditions
ofthe basal (gong), aroding(mouth harp), and babarak (ring flute).

 He was also well-versed in kulilal (songs) and bagit (vocalmusic).

 He has the creative memory and that enable him to chant allthrough the night, for successive nights,
countless tultul (epics),sudsungit (narratives), and tuturan (myths of origin and teachingsof ancestors).

3.LEGACY OR IMPACT  Preserved indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals, and traditions inexistence that is
also documented for at least 50 years.

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