FE, WHERE ARE YOU?

I never read in Bannawag your 'KANIAW' that won P5,000 (third prize) in the 4th Tugade Literary Awards, but I know that term, having been assigned in the mountain provinces as a government functionary in the 1980s. I was information manager based in Baguio, and Michael Bengwayan, Reader's Digest's Environmentalist of the Year, was one of my staffers. When did I attend the ceremony (Canao) hosted by a kadangyan

in Samoki? Or was it in Karao or Ampusongan? The late Representative Luis Hora (slow-by-slow fame) hosted one in Guisad (Baguio) in his sprawling house across the street from the house of a Villanueva (my landlady then was an Ibanag from Tuguegarao City) where I was boarding at that time. The ritual

must have lasted for three days. I know some native surnames in the Cordillera, but sad to say, Malucay is not one of them.

ALL PHOTOS RECORDED FROM THE ANNUAL PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL IN BAGUIO