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- Title:
- Fish Eaters
- Description:
- Morga wrote that the regular diet of natives was rice with “boiled fish of which there is an abundance.” Fishing was “a natural activity for self-support.” There were good sardines, sea eels, bass, seabreams called bacocos , skates, soles, bicudas, tanguingues, flounders, tarakitoks, pin-pointed fish, golden fish, eels, gilt heads, large and small oysters, mollusks, crabs, shrimps, sea-spiders, marine crabs, all kinds of mollusks plus others I will name in another post. As the colony turned 30 years old, perhaps Morga saw fit to enumerate its natural riches. Boiled fish is what Pigafetta ate in 1521, fish with broth. ctto Detail of El Pescador de Sacag painted by Felix Resurrección Hidalgo and first exhibited in 1875.
- Subjects:
- Fishes Natives, Diet
- Exhibition:
- Antonio Morga 30
- Source:
- Collection of Museo del Prado, Madrid. In “Discovering Philippine Art in Spain” RP Department of Foreign Afffairs, 1998,Felice Prudente Sta. Maria, editor
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Fish Eaters", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll055.html