This is something that’s come to mind, thinking on Philippine connections to other Southeast Asian communities/civilizations. It’s interesting thinking on artifacts and other cultural markers. Not like I will be mentioning this particular artifact in my speech; it’s just come to mind. It apparently predates the use of baybayin. You can read about it here.
Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.
Her chapbooks, Easter Sunday and Cherry, are published by Ypolita Press and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, respectively. Her current manuscript is entitled Diwata, a Tagalog word meaning, "muse."
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