MAGUINDANAONS

The name Maguindanao, which means "people of the flood plains" lives along the Pulangi River in Maguindanao province of Mindanao. The Maguindanao are known traders, farmers and fisherfolks. They expertly manufacture brassware, trays, urns and other ethic crafts. The Maguindanao are skilled weavers and carvers. However, their religious belief belief prohibits them in putting animal and human figures in the arts whichmade them develop the abstract form of representation in their carving and textile products.