The Last Bagobo Weaver

GROUP 6:
Henzlie Aquino
Karl Joseph Doria
OBJECTIVES:
Learn about Salinta Monon, her life story/
journey to being a Gamaba Awardee.
To see and have a background about her
works and her tribes.
To know how she never gave up in textile
weaving when art is threatened with
extinction.

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 Gawad sa Manlilikha
ng Bayan
GAMABA AWARD
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 Textile Weaver
“If someone wants to

SALINTA MONON learn, then I am willing

to teach,”

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SALINTA MONON

Textile Weaver
• Born on December 12, 1920 and died on June 4, 2009
• Grew up in Bituag, Bansalan in Davao del Sur
• 1998
• Cherry Quizon, an anthropologist.
• She was awarded for fully demonstrating the
creative and expressive aspects of Bagobo abaca
ikat weaving called ‘inabal’ at a time when such art
is threatened with extinction.
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SALINTA MONON
Salinta Monon had watched her mother’s nimble
hands glide over the loom, weaving traditional
Bagobo textiles.
At 12, she presented herself to her mother.
At the age of 65, she can identify the design as well
as the author of a woven piece just by a glance.
 She and her sister are the only remaining Bagobo
weavers in her community.
Her husband paid her parents a higher bride price.

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SALINTA MONON
Salinta has built a solid reputation for the quality of
her work and the intricacies of her designs.
It takes her 3 to 4 months to finish a fabric 3.5 m x 42
cm in length, or one abaca tube skirt per month.
She used to wear the traditional hand-woven tube
skirt of Bagobo, of which the sinukla and the bandura
were two of the most common types.
Her favorite is the binuwaya (crocodile) which is one
of the hardest to make.

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SALINTA MONON
She has her son to strip the abaca fibers for her.
When she has work to finish, Salinta isolates herself
from her family to ensure privacy and concentration in
her art.
She wants nothing better than to build a structure for
weaving, a place exclusively for the use of weavers.
She look forward to teaching young wives in her
community the art of weaving, for, despite the
increasing pressures of modern society.
Bagobo women are still interested in learning the art.
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SALINTA MONON
Salinta maintains a pragmatic attitude
towards the fact that she and her younger
sister may be the only Bagobo weavers left,
the last links to a colorful tradition among
their ancestors.
“If someone wants to learn, then I am
willing to teach.” she says. “If there is
none……, she shrugs off the though.

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REFERENCE:

• https://edgedavao.net/special-feature/2014/10/04/culture-a-arts-the-
last-bagobo-weaver-remembered/
• https://www.revolvy.com/page/ikat
• https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/400538960583895520/?nic=1
• https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/4000538960583895535/
• https://en.m.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinta_Monon
• https://slideplayer.com/slide/4416787/
• https://newsinfo-inquirer-
net.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/newsinfo.inquirer.net/159235/exhibit-
rediscovers-the-bagobo-people-
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• https://www,facebook.com
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MARAMING THANK YOU!!