Readings in Phil. History

1. READINGS
IN
PHILIPPINE
HISTORY

2. Juan De Plasencia’s
Customs of the
Tagalog

3. “Relacion de Las Costumbres of Los Tagalos”
 Discusses Tagalog governance, justice, administration, slavery, inheritance,
social structure, and weddings.
 It discusses the barangay, which consists of one hundred houses and is
governed by a datu or maginoo.
 It also discusses how these social classes are related and where they came
from.
 As a result, it specifies three ways in which a man might become a slave:
birth, debt, and military imprisonment.

4. Juan De Plasencia

5. Arrival in the Philippines

6. Historical
Background of the
Document

8. Datu
 Chief, captains of wars, who governed,
obeyed and reverenced.
 They coordinates in various social and
religious activities, leading in important
ceremonies, and protecting the banwa
(subgroup of the Manobo tribe) from its
enemies.

9. Nobles or Maharlika
 Nobility were known as the Principalia
and played an important role in the
friar-dominated local government.
 Free-born, they do not pay taxes.

10. Commoners or Aliping
Namamahay
 They live in their own houses
and lords of their property
and gold.

11. Slaves or Aliping
sa Guiguilir
•They serve their master in
his house and his
cultivated lands and can
be sold.

12. What if the Maharlika fell in love to
Alipin???
The first, whether male or female, belonged to the father,
as I did the third and fifth; the second, the fourth, and the
sixth fell to the mother , and so on.

13.  The Filipinos before they can own land for
their agricultural lands, by paying taxes. They
can also buy lands to Datu.
 For our economy before, they use gold tiles.

14. What if a Maharlika wanted to
transfer into another barangay?
 They were required to host a feast in honor of their
current datu and paid a sum ranging six to eighteen
pieces of gold before they could be freed from their
obligations.
 There was a Death Penalty before.

15. How they choose their Datu?

16. • Houses are made of wood,
bamboo, and nipa palm.
Mode of Dressing:
Headgear is called Putong
(symbolizes the number of persons
the wearer had killed)
(Upper) a jacket with short sleeves
called Kanggan.
(Lower) Bahag.

17. Mode of Dressing (Female):
(Upper) Baro or Camisa
(Lower) Saya