Many Filipino epics narrate how souls go to the next life, aboard boats, and pass through the rivers and seas. The reverse side of the P1,000 bill features the Banaue Rice Terraces, Manunggul Jar ...

The journey of the soul to the afterlife was closely associated by early Filipinos to maritime culture as represented by the “ship-of-the-dead” burial container called Manunggul Jar. I saw the ...

Pottery has played a curious part in Philippine culture. Our ancestors buried their dead inside manunggul jars, our patis and local wines like basi and tapuy are fermented in burnay jars, and the d… ...

EDDIE Romero. Ronald Ventura’s “Crack in the Hull” (2001) depicts two male nudes riding a boat, evoking the ancient Manunggul jar’s lid.

As seen in Kuya Kim's report on "24 Oras," Thursday, among the symbols featured are the Manunggul jar on page 18, a tamaraw on page 19, mangoes from Guimaras on page 44, butanding on page 28, and ...

Filipino artists have copied human face and likeness from prehistoric times to our day: from the time two figures on a boat were fashioned in clay to adorn the cover of the Manunggul jar, to the ...

THE arts have always been ingrained in our culture, whether as a means of entertainment or a show of wealth. From the spectrum of colors and patterns in the woven textiles of the T’bolis in Mindanao ...

THE National Museum is the country’s caretaker of history, culture, and national heritage. The museum houses priceless treasures such as the celebrated Spoliarium of Juan Luna, the thousand-year-old ...