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Reverse side of Old Alemar's Postcard

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ATI-ATIHAN

Ati-Atihan is a January festival of Aklan, Panay Island in honor of the Christ Child. The participants, representing the Negrito or Ati of the hinterislands, carry spear and are painted in soot and dressed in bright colors.

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MUSLIM WOMEN

Muslim women of Mindanao and the Sulu island in the far South are shown dancing barefooted on the straw mats.  Their daily wear is a blouse usually beaded, and a colorful sarong  of batik or silk material.

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KULINTANG

The Kulintang is a percussion instrument made of brass in different sizes and placed on an elaborately carved base. Is is common in Muslim communities.  Here a Muslim woman in her native costume plays the Kulintang by striking the instrument with a pair of wooden sticks.

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SUGAR CANE AND FILIPINO MAIDEN

The Philippines is blessed with the sweetness of cane sugar, of which US$200  million worth is exported each year, and by pretty maiden, one of them shown here on a sled by a carabao.