The sciences, both human and applied, are picking up from where oral traditions left off in explaining lingering questions over the practice of mummification in Benguet. But scholars and experts still differ over several key aspects of a practice that has been extinct for centuries. For instance, the jury is still out on the [...]
It is a Holy Week contest where the winner is the guy who cracks the most or the biggest number of eggs. On Maundy Thursday, as in previous years, groups of boys and a few men gathered at Plaza Salcedo here and played a game called “tinnuktok.”
There was a village in Ibaloi lore called “Tonglo” where the trading of gold was said to be brisk and thriving. An account by Michael Armand Canilao in his book, “Of Gold, Spanish Conquistadors and Ibaloi Generational Memory” (Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines-Baguio, 2011), has it that a Spanish punitive expedition in 1759 razed this village, killing hundreds of Ibaloi who fought the invaders.
