Convention Centers and Exhibition Halls

[flesh_is_weak]

sa tingin ko lang ang sama tingnang...parang ginawang zoo animals yung mga kababayan natin...

i hope that they were given proper compensation...

[D'Transporter]

I havn't read of anything that mention if they were allowed to roam around the whole World's Fair exhibit areas.

I'm sure our fellowmen felt tricked/fooled and used during that time but one good thing though is that they got exposed to the new world. I'm sure it was a big learning experience for them as it was for the spectators.

[ThisFire]

This is and it was a notable event that had taken place.

[Lili]

Originally Posted by pIrEnA

sa tingin ko lang ang sama tingnang...parang ginawang zoo animals yung mga kababayan natin...

i hope that they were given proper compensation...

I remember in the earlier discussions on Philippine Tourism, @Boybaha discussed something about "orientalism" or "exoticism" as a tourist attraction. I was trying to search for it to get additional perspective on things, however, I can't find his discussion the matter.

[bitoy]

Originally Posted by pIrEnA

sa tingin ko lang ang sama tingnang...parang ginawang zoo animals yung mga kababayan natin...

i hope that they were given proper compensation...

It was more of a Circus. The American depiction of the inhabitants of the Philippines was poorly done in bad taste. That fair was really promoting all things in life and during those times, Filipinos were still on the stage of modernization. I believe in that World's Fair, a lot of famous American products were introduced.

The only good thing was, it was shown to the entire world that there is such a place called P.I. or The Philippine Islands.

Inabutan ko pa ang katutubo natin na ganoon ang lagay sa buhay. Even in our province of Bicol, maraming nakaapak and their clothes were mostly handmade and some remote towns don't even know about what are those metallic flying things in the air and canned goods that were dropped by the Americans during the liberation.

[tigidig14]

amongst the show i like the bagobos

[Lili]

Yeah the Bagobos look very colorful and even their angular facial features are handsome. Isn't that where the Tales of the Manuvu came from?

[tigidig14]

with the trendy earpierce too

[Lili]

Oo nga. Nauna pa pala sila sa ganon. Yong palakihan ng butas ng tenga.

[D'Transporter]

A lot of the people from Visayas and Mindanao were decendants from the Shri Visayan empire. India had influence the empire with the Hinduism religion and one of the influence was ear piercing.

Ancient Hindus regarded a pierced ear as a sign of how cultured a family was, and all the babies were pierced in a religious ceremony. It was also used to show as a status symbol.

The peoples of the pacific islands have practised the piercing of ears, noses, genitals and lobe stretching for generations. The men of Borneo, for example, would pierce the Ampalang, as did the men in the early history of the Filipino people. Lately boletas na lang

[D'Transporter]

The Fair's Philippine Reservation included villages for the three Igorot groups, the Bontocs, Suyocs, and Tuinguianes. In the Philippines the Igorots were farmers and miners.

Several Igorots showed an interest in the American presidential election of 1904 and asked to be able to cast their ballots.

In response, two polling places were established in the Igorot village. Photographs of the two candidates, Theodore Roosevelt and Alton B. Parker, were placed over Igorot gongs; beans serving as ballots. Roosevelt carried the election, 83 to 2.

Hourly the Igorots performed native dances for fair-goers. Fair-goers were intrigued by the Igorot custom of putting their small possessions and tobacco in the basket hats they wore.

The Igorot culture included dog as part of their native diet. While some fair-goers and the Humane Society discussed the custom in the daily newspapers, others helped assure the Igorotes were supplied with dogs during the fair.

[D'Transporter]

A Suyoc Igorot family


Suyoc metal worker


Suyoc woman


Suyocs weaving

[D'Transporter]

Tuinguianes Igorots


Tuinguianes house and family


Tuinguianes village


Igorot voting for a US President

[D'Transporter]

The pass to the native villages


Philippine villages with the agricultural building at the distance

[overtureph]

[flesh_is_weak]

but in fairness, may pagka-authentic talaga yung look ng exhibit...imagine, nagawa nilang magmukhang pinas ang exhibition area dun sa america...galing pa rin ng pinoy!

[bagel]

Originally Posted by terrapin

Has anyone seen the documentary "Bontoc Eulogy"? This is a film by Marlon Fuentes whose ancestor, a Bontoc Igorot warrior, was sent to St. Louis in 1904 to be part of the "exhibit". In the film Fuentes, traces his ancestor's journey and shows lots of footage from the exhibition.

Looking at the pictures, it makes me feel sad for our ancestral Filipinos. I'm just hoping that they were treated with dignity and were able to go back home after the World's Fair was finished.

That's actually a REALLY good documentary. It was very painful to watch, to see how Filipinos were treated in the Exhibits, like they were animals in a zoo. A very educational film that shows how colonialism worked.

The film starts with Marlon Fuentes, listening to an old recording done of his ancestor... they would take Ibalois being exhibited and record their stories on wax cylinder phonographs. Fuentes then tried to recreate that experience and the alienation and hardships the Filipino native tribesmen and women, being made mere objects as if they did not possess intelligence. This treatment was harsh. Many died in the US from disease, from exposure to the cold and many disappeared, never to be heard from again. Very few, if any, were able to go back to the Philippines. Fuentes's own ancestor disappeared.

[Askal82]

The Exposition gave the viewers a myopic generalized view of how Filipinos live while stripping them of their dignity at the same time they are enjoying watching them.

[Lili]

Yes, I was wondering how they coped with the weather seeing that the American were fully clothed and the native tribesmen and women had scanty clothing. But then I am not familiar with Louisiana weather for the duration that they had the exhibit there. It did cross my mind.

[bagel]

That's St. Louis, Missouri-- they also have winter there.