Fourth-generation Yakan weaver Evelinda Otong Hamja still makes the basics of the traditional costume called semmek—the sawal or pants, the saputangan or the headdress/apron, the pinalantupan or sash, and the pis or the headscarf.
Evelinda Otong Hamja is a 40-something weaver from the Yakan tribe who, when she was just 9 years old, learned to create beautiful headscarves called seputangan from her grandmother.
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