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One of the endemic clothing of the Ivatans is the vakul.

1. One of the endemic clothing of the Ivatans is the vakul. A vakul is a headgear designed to protect the wearer from sun and rain. Men and women used to blacken their teeth. 2. Traditional Ivatan society was hierarchal - the village chief called mangpus

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One of the endemic clothing of the Ivatans is the vakul.

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  1. 1 • One of the endemic clothing of the Ivatans is the vakul. • A vakul is a headgear designed to protect the wearer from sun and rain. • Men and women used toblacken their teeth.

  2. 2 • Traditional Ivatan society was hierarchal-the village chief called mangpus • At thetop, assisted by district subalterns called mapolon. • The community is calledkumaidian.

  3. 4 • Arranged marriage was the traditional custom among the Ivatan • The boy’s family wasexpected to give half of the dowry while the groom saved up for his part. • When the girl's family agreed to the man's propose, the man will present his presentation to the girl's family.

  4. 4 • Wala yung 4

  5. 5 • Ivatan buried their dead in large earthen jarscalled padapaday in the sandy littoral plains.

  6. 6 • They believe in Anitu • the belief in anitu has been reinforced by Catholic beliefslike the suffering of souls in purgatory

  7. 7 • Wealth determined the rank and dignity of a person.

  8. 8 • Intertribalhostilities involved men only • Customary law prohibited the harming ofwomenfolk since they were the tribal procurers of food during wartime.

  9. 9 • The beaterios, which have housed small communities ofwomen called beatas

  10. 10 • The value placed on gold is evident even in Ivatan oral literature.

  11. 11 • The aboriginal Ivatan lived in mountain villages which were actually clusters ofhuts made mostly of light and perishable materials. • The huts were low, partly because high structures would have been easily destroyed by typhoons

  12. 12 • The chief means of livelihood of more than 75 percent of the Ivatan labor force areagriculture and fishing. • The rest of the Ivatan are employed in the service sector • Including the government or public sector. • Other food crops are camote or sweet potato, cassava, gabi or tuber

  13. 13 • The Ivatan do not worship spirits or invisible beings. • They have rituals usually consists of the killing of an animal, spilling part of its blood on the ground • Another ritual calledkapayvanuvanuwa (preparing the seaport) • They do this every15 March to honor the supernatural entities of the sea.

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