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