Ornaments are used to embellish parts of buildings and objects. The document discusses different types of traditional Filipino ornaments including tattoos, headresses, jewelry, and display designs. Various indigenous tribes in the Philippines such as the Ifugao, Kapampangan, Isneg, Bontok, T'boli, Mansaka, Aeta, Bagobo, and Manobo created distinctive types of ornaments such as carved wooden figures, parol lanterns, elaborate necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and headdresses often with symbolic meanings. Ornaments could be made from materials like wood, stone, precious metals, shells, beads, teeth, brass, and coral.

1. Ornaments

2. Ornament
• It is used to embellish parts of a building or object.

3. Types of Ornamentation
TattoosHeadressJewelryDisplay Design

4. DISPLAY

5. The Ifugaos have carved
Anito figures or Bulul
which represent their
ancestral spirit and
granary gods.

6. DISPLAY
On the other hand, the Kapampangans are famous in
their parol, an iconic symbol of the Filipino
Christmas.

7. JEWELRY

8. ISNEG
-Elaborate Necklaces
and capiz-shell disks
(Menghal/Warrior)

9. Bontok
-Boar-tusk neckleaces(warrior)
-Armlets for biceps (warrior)

10. T’Boli
-Brilliant inch-thick
chockers with
geometric designs to
please the Gods.
-Balls attached to
necklaces,belts, and
anklets.

11. Mansaka
- Balliug
:String beads
dangling to
the waist
containing
carnelians
and crocodile
teeth

12. Aeta
- Leglets : from
finely woven
strands of behuco

13. Bagobo
-Hollow brass
bracelets
containing little
bells

14. Manobo
-Sagay sagay :
bracelets as
charms, made from
black coral

15. Ifugao
warrior’s
Silver
“Linglingo”
earrings
and

16. Filipino Bawisak
Earring
Traditional Ifugao
tribe (Northern
Luzon, Philippines)
bead and shell
bawisak earrings
have been described
as either
representing
butterflies or a
certain item of male

17. HEADDRESS

22. ORNAMENTS AS
DESIGN

23. TATTOOS
2 PURPOSES
1.To bring out the wearer’s
physical beauty
2. To serve as a man’s war
record

24. Architectural ornament
= can be carved from stone,
wood or precious metals, formed
with plaster or clay or painted or
impressed onto a surface as
applies ornament.
=In other applied arts , the
main material of the object or a
different one such as paint or
vitreous enamel may be used.