It is said that culture is dynamic. As people with different ways of life interact, they influence each others culture. In the case of the different tribes of Ifugao, their culture is slowly being lost as the younger Ifugaos cope with modernity.

The following photos present some remnants of the Ifugao way of life.

Indigenous hand woven clothings and other items

Taluwan - a hand woven kind of bag used by Ifugao old men where they can put moma (bettle nut) and other small items

Tofob - the art of beating the gongs to produce music for appropriate ocassions

Governor Eugene Balitang leads the public in this native dance

Goppa - a kind of short poem recited after or at the middle of a native dance

Articles used by Ifugaos in their everyday lives

Items used in performing the Fia-i as pronounced by an Ayangan or Baki for the Tuwalis

A typical Ifugao earthen jar called Tifiong where rice wine (Fieja) is fermented

Munfiaju - pounding palay

Muntouop - using a square or rounded woven container called a pallongan to separate the chaff from the rice grain

Munpoong - enticing free range chicken with food to enter its cage called ho'long

Munpati - The act of killing chicken to remove its blood in order to be ready for laguim

The Ifugao way of Killing a pig to remove its blood in order to be ready for laguim

Munlaguim - The act of removing the feathers of a chiken by placing it over fire afte the act of "pati"

Munlaguim for pig

See also the Ifugao Traditional Rice Cultivation Practices