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Don’t forget to be unapologetically loud & proud of who YOU are🌺 Happy Pilipinx American History Month✨ by @_mataas

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6 years ago

❤️🖤🤍💚✊🏽💛🤍💙❤️
🎨 : @ diaspora_fostered_us
🎤 : @mca.rap (show em some love!) by @_mataas

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3 years ago

family photos in the Philippines👨‍👩‍👦‍👦
1- my mom in her youth sitting at the kulintang
2- (left) my Mama Cor, the Cordilleran dancer and baby me
(right) her and my mom posing w their guitars.
3- moms
4- pops.
5- my Lola on my dad's side
6- mom & dad's wedding
7- mom being a mom in Barotac Nuevo
8- my Apoy Pansay, baby me & my older siblings
9- my first visit back home since we came to the US. The first and last time I got to chill with my Lolo🤍
10- tribu Iloilo • Mama, Titas & Lola Ying🤍💚 by @_mataas

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7 years ago

☀️now available!☀️
•2 🌙 made w brass T’boli bells + ✨glass beads
•3 🐃 carabao horn hoop + mother of pearl rice bead & gold 🐍 pendant (single earring)
•4 🐍 twin snakes made w gold lined smokey Capiz shell + mother of pearl rice beads + glass jade flowers
•✨ 4 strand Bali-og earrings (Mindanao inspired) made with glass seed bead + Sagada betel nut (buyo)
*all hang from 18k gold on brass hooks- safe for sensitive souls🩵

pls dm for inquiries.
Salamat & Mabuhay🌺 by @_mataas

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a month ago

🐊✨ did you know that in precolonial times, the crocodile (bukarot or buwaya depending where you’re from) was considered a sacred animal- deified even? Various groups of Mindanao, Visayas & Luzon all considered them to be ancestral spirits (anito; diwata) and believed harming them would bring misfortune and/or natural disasters. It was once common practice to carve crocodile motifs onto coffins or woven into funeral garments to protect the spirit of the deceased. Wearing crocodile teeth (agimat) was also believed to protect the wearer from disease and evil energy. They are, after all, a key component to the balance of native ecosystems throughout the islands. Unfortunately today, the Philippines crocodile is considered critically endangered and even associated with concepts of greed & corruption- a reflection of the fear colonizers faced when witnessing our ancestors’ respect towards our animal relatives✨

This necklace was ✋🏽made with a solid brass casted buwaya🐊 pendant intentionally paired w/ old coconut palm wood, red jasper, green moss agate, wood grain jasper, a bit of Namibian pietersite & sandalwood✨

pls dm for inquiries.
Salamat & Mabuhay☀️ by @_mataas

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a month ago

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lovemade with brass T’boli bells (Mindanao), buyo/betel nut (Sagada), Pacific gold lined seashells, carabao🐃 horn, mother of pearl rice🌾 beads, gold lined Capiz shell (Panay), Indonesian blue🩵 coral, Malay batik & more. by @_mataas

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2 months ago

kap[w]atid at the @baryoent wrap party💖 & the family rice farm in Iloilo, cuz i miss it🩵🌾 by @_mataas

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2 months ago

✨now available! handmade with gold-lined Pacific seashells, mother of pearl rice beads & Sagada betel nut (buyo) 🐚 all various lengths & hang off 18k gold on brass leverback hooks- safe for sensitive souls🩵

pls dm for inquiries
Salamat & Mabuhay☀️ by @_mataas

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2 months ago

🌺Had a great time at Baryo HiFi this past Saturday & just wanna shout out all the beautiful folks who stopped by and showed some love! As well as all the organizers and creatives that make it what it is! I truly appreciate your support and good energy🫶🏽

Just catching up on msgs- I know some of u couldn’t make it out, so I thought I’d share a few new and still available batik & malong fabric wrapped hoop earrings left from this past weekend! All $36 & under w/ shipping available💌

•slide 1-3: 📸 @aguafrescapapi 🐬✨🫶🏽 at @fil.i.am.atbp @baryoent

•slide 5-8: available hoops ranging from 1.5”-4” -made with 18k gold on stainless steel- safe for sensitive souls🤍

Pls dm for inquiries.
Salamat & Mabuhay☀️ taken in Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles by @_mataas

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2 months ago

🐊Lolong✨ did you know that in precolonial times, the crocodile (bukarot or buwaya depending where you’re from) was considered a sacred animal- deified even? Various groups of Mindanao, Visayas & Luzon all considered them to be ancestral spirits (anito; diwata) and believed harming them would bring misfortune and/or natural disasters. It was once common practice to carve crocodile motifs onto coffins or woven into funeral garments to protect the spirit of the deceased. Wearing crocodile teeth (agimat) was also believed to protect the wearer from disease and evil energy. They are, after all, a key component to the balance of native ecosystems throughout the islands. Unfortunately today, the Philippines crocodile is considered critically endangered and even associated with concepts of greed & corruption- a reflection of the fear colonizers faced when witnessing our ancestors’ respect towards our animal relatives✨

This necklace was ✋🏽made with a solid brass casted buwaya🐊 pendant (she’s heavy!) intentionally paired with the cool earth tones of raw tigers eye, wood grain jasper & green moss agate -to balance the warm but intense fire horse energy of red jasper.

Available tomorrow along with other love-made adornments at @baryoent !! Beverly/Union in Historic Filipinotown 90026 3-8pm
See you there?🌺

Salamat & Mabuhay☀️ by @_mataas

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2 months ago

✨New ✋🏽made special collection of gold lined seashells and Sagada betel nut earrings✨Available this Saturday 3-8pm at @baryoent at Beverly/Union in Historic Filipinotown 90026✨ Stop by & say hi!🐚 by @_mataas

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2 months ago

☀️A very limited Special Edition of Pintados playing cards☀️ available this Saturday at the Fil.I.Am Marketplace at Baryo HiFi☀️ 3-8pm on Beverly & Union in Historic Filipinotown • Los Angeles 90026☀️ Come thru & grab a deck while you can!☀️
@baryoent @fil.i.am.atbp by @_mataas

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