Apayao Live Mannequins

December 20th, 2007

Kind of nice, no? Video courtesy of angelgab. You can see the mannequin costume demo for the different Cordillera provinces here.

3 Responses to “Apayao Live Mannequins”

  1. Pureza Says:

    Frankly, they look really eerie to me.It’s the same feeling when I went home to Sagada,(didn’t grow up there so m not desentisized)had Mass at Saint Mary’s and saw these tourists taking videos and kailians seemed oblivious of these people with cams encroaching on private/sacred moments. Being treated something like novelty items, or those wax figures of long dead movie characters in a funhouse along Hollywood. My personal feeling..

  2. Pureza Says:

    Frankly, they look really eerie to me.It’s the same feeling when I went home to Sagada,(didn’t grow up there so m not desentisized)had Mass at Saint Mary’s and saw these tourists taking videos and kailians seemed oblivious of these people with cams encroaching on private/sacred moments. Being treated something like novelty items, or those wax figures of long dead movie characters in a funhouse along Hollywood. My personal feeling. Good presntation tho.

  3. edwin p daiwey Says:

    Are these costumes for real, or were these “retouched” by some designer to emphasize some kind of cultural statement? Examples of real ka-igorotan costumes are those worn by subjects of Eduardo Masferre’s photographs — minimalist, utilitarian and a throwback of those days where there was no celphone, TV set nor asphalted road… when mountains were mountains to climb and rivers, rivers to swim in.

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