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- Title:
- HUNTING FOR FOOD
- Date Created:
- 2021-08-16
- Description:
- The 1740s still found areas of Filipinas thickly forested even if wood to build galleons and other boats was harvested. Missionaries were still creating parishes. The Conquista had not yet ended. Augustinians noted that the Zambals on the western side of Pangasinan and Pampanga obtained their living by hunting deer, wild swine, buffaloes; collecting wild honey from “extensive forests and shut-in mountains,” according to Fr. Antonio Mozo, OSA. They planted MALAGAN potatoes and camotes from Nueva España. The Balugas (or Aetas) of Pampanga lived in bands of 25 to 30 people and did not want to settle in towns. They used arrows to hunt deer. They dug for Nelumbium speciosum, a kind of pond lily with edible tubers that they roasted. During summer they subsisted on that root which they called SUCBAO (similar to the Ilocano SÚCAO). People of the forests perfected deer hunting. They poisoned arrows for hunting with the bark of CAMANDAG (Croton tiglium). Others attracted deer to an ambush by luring them with the scent of PANARONGUSA herbs. The land could still provide food sans ranching and vegetable raising. Meanwhile parishes were institutionalising urban living for the 1700s. Today the endemic Philippine deer once thriving is threatened with extinction.
- Subjects:
- Antonio Mozo Hunting Balugas Aetas Deer
- Exhibition:
- Philippine Food 200
- Source:
- Dreamstime. Spotted young deer
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "HUNTING FOR FOOD", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll263.html
Rights
- Rights:
- public domain