This document discusses the Maranao dance called "Kapa Malong Malong" or "Sambi sa Malong" which shows the many ways of wearing a malong, a traditional Maranao cloth. The malong is a hand-woven tube skirt made of colorful cotton cloth with geometric designs. It is worn by Maranao, Maguin-danao, and T'boli people in various ways by women as a skirt, shawl, mantle or headpiece and by men as a sash, waist-band, shorts or headgear. Rare malong designs indicate the village or tribe of origin.
This document discusses the Maranao dance called "Kapa Malong Malong" or "Sambi sa Malong" which shows the many ways of wearing a malong, a traditional Maranao cloth. The malong is a hand-woven tube skirt made of colorful cotton cloth with geometric designs. It is worn by Maranao, Maguin-danao, and T'boli people in various ways by women as a skirt, shawl, mantle or headpiece and by men as a sash, waist-band, shorts or headgear. Rare malong designs indicate the village or tribe of origin.
This document discusses the Maranao dance called "Kapa Malong Malong" or "Sambi sa Malong" which shows the many ways of wearing a malong, a traditional Maranao cloth. The malong is a hand-woven tube skirt made of colorful cotton cloth with geometric designs. It is worn by Maranao, Maguin-danao, and T'boli people in various ways by women as a skirt, shawl, mantle or headpiece and by men as a sash, waist-band, shorts or headgear. Rare malong designs indicate the village or tribe of origin.
Also called Sambi sa Malong, this Maranao dance shows the
many ways of wearing a malong, a simple tubular yet highly functional piece of cloth. The traditional womens version shows this cloth of countless colorful designs; used mostly as a skirt, woven in many different ways, depending on the purpose of the wearer. Other ways the women wear malong is as a shawl, a mantle, or a head-piece. The malong is a traditional tube skirt made of hand-woven (and sometimes machine-made) multi-colored cotton cloth, bearing a variety of geometric or okir designs a term used for geometric and flowing de-signs. The malong is akin to the sarong worn by peo-ples of Malaysia, Brunei Darrusalam and Indonesia. The malong is traditionally used as a garment by numerous other tribes in the Southern Philippines and the smaller Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines. Hand-woven malongs are made by Maranao, Maguin-danao and Tboli weavers using a backstrap loom. The pattern or style of the malongs they produce indicate their tribal origin, such as the Maranao malong landap. Very rare malong designs and styles indicate the village in which the malong was made like the extremely intri-cate malong rawatan made only by a handful of Mara-nao weavers in Lanao del Sur, a province in Mindanao. Handwoven malongs, which are more costly than those made by machines, are likely to be used only at social functions to display the social and economic status of the wearer. During more recent dance documentation, a mens version was derived. This version shows in masculine rendition, how men don the malongdisplaying its use as a sash or waist-band, shorts or bahag, and a head-gear that can be either functional while working in the fields, or decorative as a turban.