Ang DVD na Crossing the Sulu Seas ay produksyon ng Kriscutlery at maraming datos na makukuha dito:
"A documentary exploring the various aspects of Philippine and Indonesian martial arts and bladed weapons. In 1988, Cecil Quirino started field research in Sulu, Philippines to study the weapons and martial arts of the Muslim Filipinos - the Moros. A trip to Java, Indonesia followed in 1990 to search for information that might be relevant. This video is part of that study. Featuring: Djakarta National Museum, Djeno's Java Keris, Sali a Tausug doing Silat with a Kris, Mock sword fight, Muslim Wedding, Sulu swordsmith forging a Kris and many more! Additional scenes were added from the original VHS version."05/31/2010
Ang taribong ng mga Panay Bukidnon
Ang taribong (o talibong o sanduko) na ito ay mula sa mga Panay Bukidnon (o Sulod), mula sa isla ng Panay. Ang puluhan ay balot ng pilak.
May mga kaugnay na larawan at diskusyon dito at dito.
Ang mga larawan ay galing sa Oriental Arms.
Ang walong "villa" ng Pilipinas
Mula kay Dr. Luciano P.R. Santiago (2005) -- "A villa is a Spanish territorial classification as well as an institution. It is little known in the Philippines, even among historians, because it was sparsely granted in these parts during the Colonial Period. Though small in number, the villas were huge in significance as the centers for regional consolidation as well as, when linked together, the general dissemination of Spanish rule, commerce and culture in the archipelago. In current works, the term is usually, but inaccurately, translated as 'village.' However, its closest English equivalent is 'borough' (as in Marlborough). In this article, we shall retain the Spanish word villa.
"In the more than three centuries of Spanish domination in the Islands, only eight settlements or towns were raised into the status of a villa - one each in five major ethno-linguistic regions (Cebú, Bicol, Ilocos, Panay and Pampanga) and in three Tagalog provinces (Laguna, Tayabas [now Quezón] and Batangas). Thus, the eight Philippine villas were Cebú (founded 1565), Libón, Albay (1573), Vigan (1574), Arévalo, Iloilo (1581), Pila, Laguna (c1610), Tayabas, Tayabas (1703), Bacolor, Pampanga (1765) and lastly, Lipá, Batangas (1887)."
"Librong pagaaralan" (1610) ni Tomas Pinpin
Ang pamagat ng aklat ay Librong pag-aaralan ng mga Tagalog ng wikang Kastila [lit., A Spanish language study book for Tagalogs], na inilathala noong 1610.
Mga sipi, mula sa artikulo ni Paul Morrow:
“Dito sa unang cabanata, isisilid co ang mga pagbilang nang dilan balang na, munti’t marami; ang sa pilac at ang sa dilan tinatacal: at ang siya ngang naiibig ninyong onahing pag-aralan.”
[Here in the first chapter, I will insert the counting of any number of things, few and many; of money and anything that is measured: and it is the very thing you want to study first.] ...
“Datapoua’t con ang sulat ay 1234 sa macatouid ay labi sa libo dalauang daan, at maycapat apat, ay ano yaong na onang letra dili caya sang libo; yayamang 1 nga at may casonod pang tatlo at yaong icalaua, dili caya dalauang daan; yayamang 2 nga at may casonod pang dalaua, at yaong icatlo’y dili caya tatlong pouo: yayamang 3 nga at may casonod pang isa, at yaong uacas ay dili caya apat na lamang; yayamang 4 nga at uala nang casonod.”
[However, if 1234 is written, it is therefore one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four and what is that first letter [meaning digit] but one thousand because it is a 1 and it is followed by three more [digits] and that second [digit] is none other than two hundred because it is a 2 with two more [digits] following it and that third [digit] is but thirty because it is a 3 followed by one more [digit] and that last one is only four because it is a 4 and nothing more follows it.]
05/26/2010
Ang Colt .45 at ang Pilipinong mandirigma
Ang simulain ng pistol na .45 M1911 ay nag-ugat sa Digmaang Filipino-Amerikano, na pumutok noong 1899.
Bago pa makalaban ng Amerikano ang mga Moro (1903 pataas), kinailangan na ang .45 laban sa mga Kristyanong sandatahanes at talibones [bolomen] ng Luzon at Kabisayaan (1899 pataas).
Kung magkagayon, and buong Kapilipinuhan ang siyang 'hilot' na nagsilang sa pinakatanyag na baril sa buong mundo.
05/24/2010
Mga sandata sa katalogo ni Juynboll
Mula sa katalogo (1928) ni Dr. HH Juynboll ng Rijks Ethnographisch Museum ay makikita ang iba't ibang sandata at gamit ng mga Pilipino.
Ang katapusan ni Leonard Furlong
Mula sa Jungle Patrol: The story of the Philippine Constabulary (1938) ni Vic Hurley, mababasa natin ang simulain at katapusan ni Leonard Furlong:
"Leonard Furlong was another who piled endless years into his short span of life. He wore the Medal of Valor for the Taraca campaigns at thirty: a quick-tempered flashing fighter who was burning up inside. At fifteen Furlong was a Naval Cadet; at twenty-one he was fighting Indians in Minnesota; at twenty-two he was in the Philippines in the first American expedition to Mindanao; and at thirty-four he was dead by his own hand. He was but one of that pageant of magnificent youngsters that was the commissioned force of the Philippine Constabulary ...
"Furlong was approaching the end of a dramatic career. He had given away now, in field efforts, to Whitney and Tiffany and Crites and Cochrun. He was burned out physically and harassed by charges of his superiors in Manila. It was said that he had used unnecessary brutality in his famous Taraca expedition. Hastily Furlong returned from a short vacation to defend himself. He was indicted, tried, and vindicated, and promoted to a Captaincy.On detail as Senior Inspector m Lanao, Furlong demonstrated the old fighting genius that had made him one of the most powerful figures of the Constabulary. But his old vitality was gone, and he was gnawed by thoughts of his trial and the attendant publicity. Always a strange, sensitive figure, he broke at last under the strain of the years of jungle campaign. He was sent to Manila for observation and treatment, arriving there on June 21. 1911.On the evening prior to Furlong's death he dined with the officers at the mess, and during the meal gave no sign of depression. At nine o'clock in the evening of July 9 he passed two officers on his way to his quarters. A moment later a shot was heard; and when they entered his room, Furlong was found dying on the bed from a gunshot wound.He was certainly the most romantic, and without question one of the greatest, individual fighting men of that long line of fighting men who pacified the Philippines. In his short span of life he lived a dozen lifetimes. He was typical of an age ... a desperate fighting age when youngsters grew hurriedly to full man size. His memory will live forever in the archives of the corps he served so well."
Balarao [balaraw] ng mga Bisaya
Mula sa Cedulario de Manila [A collection of laws emanating from Spain which governed the City of Manila 1574-1832], ipinakikita ang isang Bisaya na armado ng balaraw [balarao].
Diplata ng mga Pilipinong Aeta [1/2]
Ang halimbawa na ito ay mula sa Erik's Edge. Diplata ang tawag sa sandata na ito ng mga PIlipinong Negrito.
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