The Spectrum in Buguias' Culture

Buguias land of potatoes or known as "patatas".Here is an example of potato poetry and other Buguias items. http//:shellsacla.blogspot.com(Buguias daughter)

Watwat , is big chunk of boiled meat. It is usually done during big events like wedding, death anniversary and burial. Watwat is the formulated term for the meat distributed to people who attended the event. The pieces of watwat are also not given randomly but the parts of the meat are distributed according to age. For example liver of the butchered pig are religiously given to elders.

“PINONOG”or blood it is been a tradition done by ancestors. In Pagan tradition drinking the blood symbolizes as a chain between them not distinct becoming blood brothers.

People of Buguias help each other if someone is in need like when a family lose their love ones. Not only during death that bayanihan occurs but also during wedding and fiestas.   All neighbourhoods are gathered at that place and to be sent to gather firewood at the same time to select and cut a tree for making the dead’s coffin. By the costumes and traditions the culture of the ancestors is to spend all their daily activities to attend the wake and to help in all the job of fetching water, butchering, cooking and preparing firewood.   Later day until burial a pig must be butchered to feed the people.   And also after burial a month or so, the “lobon” is performed to finalize “ngilin’days.

  I would like to share Buguias Spectrum of culture. The dominant dialect or language in Buguias is Kankanaey, and the original language of the ancestors can be traced to Kalanguya, similar to Nabaloi or Ibaloi language. The main livelihood in the municipality is vegetable farming. And Buguias has always been famous with the beautiful vegetable terraces especially when most of the fields turn vegetables green. Those various vegetables in every terrace prove the title of Buguias, as the “vegetable panorama of the north.

 I would like to share Buguias Spectrum of culture. The dominant dialect or language in Buguias is Kankanaey, and the original language of the ancestors can be traced to Kalanguya, similar to Nabaloi or Ibaloi language. The main livelihood in the municipality is vegetable farming. And Buguias has always been famous with the beautiful vegetable terraces especially when most of the fields turn vegetables green. Those various vegetables in every terrace prove the title of Buguias, as the “vegetable panorama of the north.