Aerial view Puerto Princesa City, provincial capital |
Aerial view Iwahig River |
Aerial view west coast of Palawan |
Our house |
Maggie, our bat-eared Palawan cat |
Neighbor kids visiting |
Miriam babysitting |
Miriam and Maggie on one of many gloomy and rainy days |
Mang Luis and grandchild |
New family |
Miss Napsaan -- a talent and beauty pageant |
Funeral -- one of many |
Funeral in Apurawan |
Daan Tagbanua |
Masbatenos settlers near Quezon |
Crossing the Bagumbayang River on way to a funeral |
Procession honoring patron saint of community |
Aerial overview of village center |
Irrigated rice -- Rudy repairing water canals |
Irrigated rice -- land preparation |
Frontier life |
Planting rice in a burned swidden field |
Rice swidden planting party |
How to trap a monkey in your rice field |
Visiting the Batak - bridge to nowhere |
Young unmarried Batak girl |
Batak mother and child |
Batak -- our hosts while visiting |
Remote Batak house |
Batak hunter |
Batak mother and child #2 |
Batak mother and child #3 |
Palawan beach |
Returning from night fishing |
Outrigger sailing canoe |
Abandoned boat hull |
Fishing with homemade speargun |
Reef fishing just offshore |
Dilapidated west coast town of Quezon |
Weighing the night's catch |
Participant observation |
Galon hunting in the forest |
Forest trip |
Collecting Manila copal |
Galon is going to collect honey from a bee hive high in the trees |
Applying a natural bee repellent |
The smoking torch drives bees away from the hive |
Collecting the hive |
Galon processing the honey |
Shelter in forest 'campo' |
Wild pig killed by Mang Binancio and sons |
Yet another injury - pierced through the foot by bamboo |
Miriam and Maggie on front porch of house |
Old friends |
Where is Palawan? |