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Lumad Portrait: The Bagobos

Photography, Jojie Alcantara

(Wikipedia) LUMAD is a term for a group of indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines. It is a Cebuano term meaning "native" or "indigenous", or a collective identity of the non-Islamized indigenous peoples of Mindanao.

There are 18 Lumad ethnolinguistic groups namely, Ata, Bagobo, Banwaon, B’laan, Bukidnon, Dibabawon, Higaonon, Mamanwa, Mandaya, Manguwangan, Manobo, Mansaka, Subanon, Tagakaolo, Tasaday, Tboli, Teduray, and Ubo.

According to the Lumad Development Center Inc., there are about eighteen Lumad groups in 19 provinces across the country. They comprise 12 to 13 million or 18% of the Philippine population and can be divided into 110 ethno-linguistic groups. Considered as "vulnerable groups", they live in hinterlands, forests, lowlands and coastal areas.

* * * These are faces of beautiful people who belong to the Bagobo tribe, living peacefully up in the highlands of Kapatagan (Tibolo Village) and Tudaya Village, Davao del Sur. I am lucky to have come across them and who willingly posed for me inside and outside their homes.
Ethnic beauty bagobo child bagobo tribeswoman boy in the window
Sandara's Eyes Bagobo Tribeswoman old and wise and wistful in the fields
shy sweet child bagobo mestiza manang
Children of hope Manong