Bua Hudasan Kara, from Maguindanao Province, is building a boat similar to the decorated boat seen in the background.
Photo by Eric Long

Performing groups with craftspeople as well as individual craftspeople demonstrated their skills in three cluster areas. In the carving area three artists from Luzon presented a variety of carving traditions. Two artists demonstrated the carving of religious images while a carver from Kalinga Province in upland Luzon demonstrated utensils and local figures. A builder from Mindanao worked on an elaborate boat used in inter-island transportation.

Radico A. de Dios, from Pampanga Province,works on an altar carving of one of the stages of the cross .
Photo by Melissa Jeffery


Film for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival was graciously provided by FUJIFILM USA

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