Tingkep Basket

of the Palawan
Tribe
Vernadette T. Adora
Angela A. Amarille
Palawan Tribe
The Palawan tribal
people, also known as
the Palawano or the
Palaw'an, are an
indigenous ethnic
group of the Palawan
group of islands in the
Philippines.
Palawan Tribe
• Palawanos are more popularly known as Palawans,
which is pronounced faster than the name of the
province.
• The Palawans are a protected tribal people under the
Strategic Environmental Plan (SEP) Law or Republic
Act 7611.
The Palawans were
originally a
nomadic tribe in
Southern Palawan
but when they
became aware of
the concept of
property rights,
they started to
build small villages
and stopped being
nomadic people.
Palawan Tribe
• They built their houses usually on a hillside but close to
the river or stream using trunks of trees.They do not
have a concept of year or years. When asked when were
they born, they would reference it to a standing tree,
explaining that they were born when a particular tree
was just about a certain height.
Palawan Tribe
• They were naive in socializing with their outside world,
they were always scared of getting sick. It is believed
that they have the shortest life span.
• The Palawans are a socio-economically vulnerable tribe
because they still lack basic education. They are not
being given attention especially by the government such
as the need to increase their life expectancy, to provide
them with proper education, and to improve their social
and economic status.
Beliefs
• The principle on which the Palawan base their life is
called ingasiq, meaning ‘compassion’. This underlies all
their actions and emphasizes the importance of
behaving with generosity and sympathy towards others.
• Their ceremonies, prayers, chanting and healing dances
are all part of what they call adat et kegurangurangan,
or ‘the customs of the ancestors’.
• The universe is vertical and divided into fourteen
different layers. The souls of the beljan (shamans) are
able to travel to these other levels in order to ‘heal the
world’ and to re-establish the cosmic balance.
Clothes
• G-strings for men
• Patadyong for women.

Basic Foods
• rice, banana, cassava, vegetables, fruits, wild pigs, birds,
wild chicken, and fish.

Main Source of Income

• Rattan gathering
• Production of yantok
Some Palawan Words
• bibila` or ibeyba - friend
• maman - uncle
• indu` - mother
• isi` - get
• mangelen - purchase/buy
• surung - go
• bukid - mountain
• manga`an - eat
Tingkep Basket
The Tingkep is a special
basket that serves both
practical and spiritual
purposes in the Pala’wan
community life. It is used in
hunting, as a storage
container for salt, rice, and
personal belongings, and as
an item for bartering. The
tingkep is also used to house
the spirit of “Linamin et
Kundu” during a healing
ritual called Kundu.’
Tingkep Basket
• Tingkep baskets woven by the Pala’wan tribe in the
southern half of Palawan province isused for a variety of
purposes: as a storage container for rice, salt and
personal belongings; inhunting; in bartering, where it is
exchanged for rice, wraparound skirts, and blankets,
amongother things.
• The tingkep is also experiencing an increasing demand
among tourists who visit Puerto Princessa, the capital
city of Palawan, and has become the primary source of
income for the tribe.
Tingkep Basket
• Tingkep-weaving is passed down to future
generations and involves multiple family members.
Both girls and boys are taught to weave at a young
age, although men participate in the process by
helping gather and prepare materials, while women
perform the actual weaving.
 Elements and
Materials of a Tingkep
Basket
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