English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

This article presents a methodological overview and preliminary synthesis of multi-site ethnographic data on botanical practices related to indigenous textiles in Southern Mindanao. Focusing on information derived from fieldwork among Bagobo and T’boli specialists in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, we describe indigenous textile practices related to plant use, drawing on field and herbarium specimens with comparative information from other textile-producing groups in the region. The use of abaca ( Musa textilis ) thread alongside principal dye plants ( Morinda citrifolia  L. and  Diospyros nitida ) create the characteristic textile patterns that have long been associated with Mindanao material culture. We also describe the use of contemporary sources that extend plant-based repertoires and discuss the role of indigenous specialists and collaborators in multi-site research. In presenting both method and data patterning, this paper seeks to delineate how traditional botanical knowledge facilitates a range of contemporary aesthetic goals among Mindanao’s indigenous communities. In addition, this article adds to our understanding of how material culture, or the making of culturally meaningful things by historically marginalized peoples, continues to shape knowledge systems and organize individual and collective action.

Botanical knowledge and indigenous textiles in the Southern Mindanao highlands: method and synthesis using ethnography and ethnobotany