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Kneeling carabao and dancing giants : celebrating Filipino festivals

Publisher: Pacific View Press,


Title Details
  • Kneeling carabao and dancing giants :
Publishers
  • Berkeley, California : Pacific View Press,c1997.
Descriptions
  • 48 pages : colored illustration
Isbn
    1881896153
Language
    English
Subjects
  • Festivals -- Philippines.
  • Harvest festivals -- Philippines.
  • Philippines -- Social life and customs.
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Place
  • Philippines
Location MAIN
Item Call Number GT 4881 K73 1997
Copynumber 1
Status Item withdrawn
Barcode 16199
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - 1881896153
Language Code
  • Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - GT 4881
  • Item number - K73 1997
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Krasno, Rena
Title Statement
  • Title - Kneeling carabao and dancing giants :
  • Remainder of title - celebrating Filipino festivals /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - Rena Krasno ; illustrated by Ileana C. Lee
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Berkeley, California :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Pacific View Press,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1997.
Physical Description
  • Extent - 48 pages :
  • Other physical details - colored illustration
Content Type
Media Type
Carrier Type
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - An invitation -- Original Filipinos -- Malakas at maganda -- Carabao, star of farmer's celebration -- Philippine water buffalo -- Coconut cookies, Sipa - a game you can play -- Why the carabao has tight black skin -- Celebrating rice, the Ati-atihan festival -- Indonesians: sailors, rice planters, engineers -- Writing on bamboo and bark -- How the Filipinos discovered rice -- The three crystal boxes -- Song : planting rice -- Hari Raya Poasa, a Moslem festival -- Arabs : Allah, artists and musicians -- The chieftain's golden heart -- The mean Datu -- Christmas parol festival -- The Spanish arrive -- Galleons : trading across the Pacific -- Christmas traditions -- Making parol, bombones de arroz -- How the Pascua plant got its colors -- Philippine independence day -- Independence at last -- Chicken adobo, saba fritters -- Filipino Americans -- Filipino music -- Festival of the higantes -- How Kanlaon killed the dragon -- Everyday heroes.
Language Note
  • Language note - English
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Festivals
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Harvest festivals
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
Subject Geographic Name
  • Geographic name - Philippines
  • General subdivision - Social life and customs.
Personal Name
  • Personal name - Lee, Ileana C.
  • Relator code - Illustrator.