(For Barangay, reading the book is limited so if you want to read certain pages look at the contents pages with all the chapters and go to where you want to read and learn most.

Barangay: 16th Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott ***(Google Books U.S.).

Barangay: 16th Century Philippine Culture and Society by William Henry Scott *** (Google Books Philippines).

A bit of info on the Kingdom of Tondo & Maynilad.īooks, Essays, and Primary Written Accounts.

Bakla: Pre-Colonial Views and Acceptance.

Our Goldwork that we were known for in Maritime Southeast Asia and Asia prior to the Spanish.

Dating (not the English word dating), a Tagalog rite of passage from a young girl to womanhood.

The Visayan’s Time Keeping in Pre-colonial Times.

So go forth my peasants! And start learning about our pre-colonial cultures that is sadly not taught in schools, and start drawing Piri embracing her pre-colonial history and cultures for pre-colonial History and Culture Month! I’m looking forward to seeing all our your drawings and fanfiction! :D Remember if you have any questions on anything feel free to message me. That and also records from neighboring area’s like China and Borneo. Perhaps someday we might find some more written records by us but for now we still haven’t found any besides the Laguna Copperplate, so we must make do with what the early Spaniards wrote about us and the islands, which thankfully they did in some detail or else none of that would be known today. If we did write down any information they were on perishable objects like bamboo or palm leaves, and if not they were on things like the famous Laguna Copperplate, however we haven’t found them yet.

The only things we actually did use our writing was for poems, songs, and short messages with one another. Now there are no written records written by us because we were an oral culture, any stories and important information was passed down orally through each generation.

For those of you who aren’t participating but would like to know more about our pre-colonial history and cultures as well feel free to check them out too. So in honor of Pre-Colonial History and Culture Month in October in dA and the APH/MAAF/ASEAN community I have decided to make a list of resources to help those of you that will be participating in the month long challenge of drawing Piri with no influences of colonialism.

Barangay by William Henry Scott