Mandaya: Presented By: Cutad, Ray Dag-Uman, Ely Mae Cortes, Maiko
Mandaya: Presented By: Cutad, Ray Dag-Uman, Ely Mae Cortes, Maiko
Mandaya: Presented By: Cutad, Ray Dag-Uman, Ely Mae Cortes, Maiko
Presented by:
Cutad, Ray
Dag-uman, Ely Mae
Cortes, Maiko
“MANDAYA”
• “Man” means first.
• “daya” which literally means “upstream”
or “upland”.
• “first people upstream”
• is the ethnic tribe of Davao Oriental (and
in some parts of Surigao Del Sur), the
southeastern part of the Philippines.
POPULATION
DAVAO ORIENTAL(1988) 22,000
J.P
OSCC(1988) 650,784
Mandaya warrior.
usually the bravest man in
the kin group and was
noted for the number of
persons.
In order to become a
Bagani, he should have
killed 7-10 persons.
NESTOR MASINARING
Nuclear Polygynous
-consisting of the -consisting of two or
parents and the children. more wives with their
children.
PROVERBS