He also drew on a table runner in his aunt’s home that he used as a costume as a child as well as clothing from the Igorot ethnic group in the Philippines. “As a kid, I would take those table ...

MANILA, Philippines — Kirk Bondad makes the Top 20 of the National Costume competition at Mister World 2024 with his Igorot-inspired costume. The Miss World Philippines Organization posted Kirk ...

Kirk Bondad paid homage to his Igorot roots during the National Costume competition of the Mr. World 2024 pageant in Vietnam. His mom, Jane, is an Igorot who hails from the Mountain Province. On ...

Out of the 135 performers attending the parade, only BIBAK NY represented the Indigenous Igorot and Cordilleran communities hailing from the six northern provinces of the Philippines: Abra ...

Jared (3rd from left) with his family and few relatives dressed in Igorot costumes during one of his trip to the Philippines to visit family and relatives Source: Edwin Lesaca Understand the ...

Among those who witnessed the turnover of the costumes was KUNSTKAMERA Research Director Professor Maria Stanyukovich, who has done extensive studies on Philippine native folklore including the Hudhud ...

that we were proud to be Igorot,” Watan said of her and her younger sister’s upbringing abroad. Now in retirement, her parents came back to the Philippines and settled in Baguio.

A group of some ten women stood away from everyone else in a corner of the church as Sunday Mass progressed in San Lorenzo parish, in the hilly tourist district of Loakan in the Philippines. The women ...

This book was historic as it was written by Igorot people,” said Manuel Ano, who chairs the IGO-Philippines. Ano said most books about the Cordillera were written by foreigners. “We need more ...