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The traditional pottery of Pasil Kalinga uses locally sourced clay and indigenous tools. Pottery making is a timeless craft in the region, passed down through generations. In Pasil, pottery remains an exclusively female occupation. Potters use natural materials like clay, sandstone, and bamboo in combination with simple hand tools to form, decorate, and fire their creations. The pottery produced reflects the culture and environment of Pasil Kalinga.

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Lesson 6

The traditional pottery of Pasil Kalinga uses locally sourced clay and indigenous tools. Pottery making is a timeless craft in the region, passed down through generations. In Pasil, pottery remains an exclusively female occupation. Potters use natural materials like clay, sandstone, and bamboo in combination with simple hand tools to form, decorate, and fire their creations. The pottery produced reflects the culture and environment of Pasil Kalinga.

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The Art of Traditional

Pottery of Pasil
Kalinga

GROUP 2
FACTS

Pottery is a traditional craft of the local tribes in


Kalinga. Clay is the most important and earth's most
abundant raw materials.

Potters of Pasil use natural and locally available raw


materials and indigenous tools and with the use of
the bare hand in doing the said craft;

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FACTS

Pottery is a timeless occupation and the best


pots through the ages have an equality of
timelessness about then that transcends
chronological and cultural boundaries.

In the contemporary art arena, pottery has been


looked at as the poor cousin to painting and
sculpture in much the same way that the
graphical arts were viewed.

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DID YOU KNOW?
FACTS

In Kalinga, in
Barangay Dangtalan in
Pasil, pottery still
remains to be an
exclusively female
craft.

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Tools and
Materials used in
Kalinga Pottery

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TOOLS & MATERIALS

The following are the functions of the tools and materials(in


Traditional Term) used in Kalinga Pottery:

⊡ Pita (Clay) –it is the primary component in order to create and


produce a hand-made earthenware.
⊡ Al’o(Pestle) –it is use in order to make the clay stone-free and
fine.
⊡ Sasal-salan – it is a big smoothen rock where potters pound clay
soil into fine clay.
⊡ Chuyas –it is a wooden plate where the clay is being formed.

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TOOLS & MATERIALS

⊡ Ichi-id –it is a stone polisher.

⊡ Pikpik –it is a wooden paddle.

⊡ Gili –it is used inscribing designs and designs on the surface of


the pot.

⊡ Talin-jak –it is a piece of bamboo used in pulling the pot from


fire.

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TOOLS & MATERIALS

⊡ Inanas –it is a piece of cloth used in polishing.

⊡ Usu-us –it is a piece of coconut shell used in


polishing.
⊡ Chu’yok –it is a piece of wood.

⊡ Aga-us – it is a round metal.

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TOOLS & MATERIALS

⊡ Puya –it is known as red clay.

⊡ Nigatong- it is a sand stone.

⊡ Pakaw- it is a raisin handle.

⊡ Ulot For burning process, bamboo sticks and rice


husk are required.

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“
FINISHED PRODUCTS

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I HOPE YOU LEARN
SOMETHING TODAY

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