
‘Amik,’ ‘kaliya manuk,’ ‘tiyula itum,’ ‘pinikpikan’–proudly indigenous food
Urban dwellers, myself included, will call their colorful special clothes as costumes. But to the indigenous people (about 500 delegates) that recently massed in Malolos, Bulacan, for an event called Dayaw, organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the clothes they wore were their native attire.