Tagum’s Kagikan Exhibit pays tribute to original settlers

Tri people direct descendants and Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives
Tri people direct descendants and Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives

Tagum’s Kagikan Exhibit pays tribute to original settlers

The Kagikan Exhibit formally opened on February 23, 2015 at the Gaisano Mall of Tagum Atrium, showcasing Tagum City’s three original settlers: the indigenous peoples (lumads), the muslims and the pioneer migrant pilgrims who came from the northern islands of Luzon, Cebu, Bohol, Iloilo and Leyte.

Opening ceremony of Kagikan Exhibit
Opening ceremony of Kagikan Exhibit

 

These are the tri-people inhabitants of the city which are being highlighted and acknowledged for the first time since the foundation of Tagum as a political and territorial subdivision in the past seventy years.

City Information Office staff with CIO officer Edwin Lasquite
City Information Office staff with CIO officer Edwin Lasquite

 

The City Information Office spearheads this year’s annual exhibit, and the show’s opening was witnessed by the Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives to the city’s 23 barangays, with members of cultural communities and Muslims dressed colorfully in traditional clothes. Direct descendants of early settlers graced the occasion and expressed gratitude for this touching tribute to their forefathers.

Kagikan Exhibit of traditional tools
Kagikan Exhibit of traditional tools

 

The exhibit showcased traditional wears, utensils, musical instruments and tribal accessories of both ethnic and Muslim communities based on written accounts of early migrants who came to Tagum in the years 1900 to 1939 when it was still a municipal district of the Davao Province.

Colorful Puto Cone by the lumads
Colorful Puto Cone by the lumads

 

Traditional food prepared by the lumads and Muslims were offered to the visitors.

IP descendants representatives and guests
IP descendants representatives and guests

 

The exhibit will run until March 7, 2015 in time for the 17th Araw ng Tagum celebration.

Kagikan exhibit opening
Kagikan exhibit opening

 

Photographers from Tagum and Davao
Photographers from Tagum and Davao

 

 

 

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