ibaloi - indigenous community of the philippines

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2. The Ibaloi are an indigenous ethnic group found in
Benguet province of the northern Philippines. Ibaloi
is derived from i-, a prefix signifying "pertaining
to" and badoy or house, together then meaning "people
who live in houses".
ALL ABOUT IBALOI
Kabayan is one of the Municipality of Benguet
Province in the Cordillera Mountain Ranges of
northern Luzon. The municipality is recognized
as a center of Ibaloi Culture.

3. IBALOI'S CHARACTERISTICS
The Ibaloy people are strong, robust, and
often fair-skinned.
The Ibaloi are a mostly an
agricultural people who
cultivate rice in terraced
fields.
They are both good and evil in nature
and can be evoked to both anger and
pleasure.

4. IBALOI'S CULTURE, BELIEFS, &
PRACTICES
Ibaloi society is composed of the rich
(baknang) and three poor classes, the
cowhands (pastol), farmhands (silbi), and
non-Ibaloi slaves (bagaen). The Ibaloi have
a rich material culture, most notably their
mummification process, which makes use of
saltwater to prevent organ decomposition

5. IBALOI'S CULTURE, BELIEFS, &
PRACTICES
The Ibaloi believe in two kinds of
spirits (anitos). The nature spirits
are associated with calamities, while
the ancestral ones (ka-apuan) make
their presence known in dreams or by
making a family member sick.

6. IBALOI'S CULTURE, BELIEFS, &
PRACTICES
The Ibaloi traditionally practised
mummification. The process they
used involved smoking the corpse
for months to completely dehydrate
the dead body, which preserved
every part of the body including
tattoos and internal organs.

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