Ifugao

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The Ifugao are an indigenous ethnolinguistic group in the northern Philippines renowned for their rice terrace engineering, rich oral traditions, and complex ritual practices.

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Label Occurrences
Ifugao canonical 13
Ifugao Province 3

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnolinguistic group
indigenous people
agriculturalTechnology gravity-fed irrigation systems
stone-walled rice terraces
associatedWith Banaue Rice Terraces
Banaue Rice Terraces
surface form: Batad Rice Terraces

Hapao Rice Terraces
colonialHistory resisted full Spanish colonization
country Philippines
culturalFestival Imbayah Festival
culturalHeritageStatus intangible cultural heritage of the Philippines
economy handicrafts
rice cultivation
tourism
ethnicGroupPopulationCountry Philippines
famousFor Banaue Rice Terraces
surface form: Ifugao Rice Terraces

bulul rice granary figures
complex ritual practices
rice terrace engineering
rich oral traditions
woodcarving
hasOralTradition Alim epic
Hudhud chants
language Ifugao languages
languageFamily Austronesian languages
locatedIn Northern Luzon
partOf Cordillera indigenous peoples
primaryRegion Cordillera mountain region
surface form: Cordillera region
provinceSharesNameWith Ifugao Province
recognizedBy Banaue Rice Terraces
surface form: UNESCO World Heritage Site (Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras)
religion Protestant Christianity
Roman Catholicism
indigenous Ifugao religion
ritualSpecialist mumbaki (priest-shaman)
socialStructure kinship-based communities
traditionalBelief ancestor veneration
animism
traditionalClothing tapis (women’s wraparound skirt)
wanoh (men’s loincloth)
traditionalHouseType Ifugao bale (native house)
traditionalMaterialCulture rice granaries
wooden ritual objects
traditionalSubsistence swidden agriculture
wet-rice agriculture
UNESCORecognition Hudhud chants of the Ifugao (Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity)
usesWritingSystem Latin script (for modern writing)

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mount Pulag locatedIn Ifugao
Iwak language locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Ifugao
this entity surface form: Ifugao Province
Batad Ifugao language spokenIn Ifugao
this entity surface form: Ifugao Province
Kalanguya language region Ifugao
this entity surface form: Ifugao Province
Nueva Vizcaya borderedBy Ifugao
Nueva Vizcaya ethnicGroup Ifugao
Kankanaey relatedGroup Ifugao
Igorot subgroup Ifugao
Igorot primaryProvinces Ifugao