philippine studies Ateneo de Manila University • Loyola Heights, Quezon City • 1108 Philippines The Sulod: A Mountain People in Central Panay J. Landa Jocano Philippine Studies vol. 6, no. 4 (1958): 401–436 Copyright © Ateneo de Manila University Philippine Studies is published by the Ateneo de Manila University. Contents may not be copied or sent via email or other means to multiple sites and posted to a listserv without the copyright holder’s written permission. Users may download and print articles for individual, noncom- mercial use only. However, unless prior permission has been obtained, you may not download an entire issue of a journal, or download multiple copies of articles. Please contact the publisher for any further use of this work at
[email protected]. http://www.philippinestudies.net Fri June 30 13:30:20 2008 The Sulod: A Mountain People In Central Panay, Philippines F. LANDA JOCANO he writer first visited the Sulod settlements in the moun- tains of Central Panay in November 1955. This contact was accidental. Out of interest in studying native folk- tales, the writer, then an undergraduate student, toured the mountainsides of Panay collecting folk songs, stories and proverbs. It was during one of the trips to the upland barrios of Maasin, Janiuay, Lambunao, and Calinog in Iloilo province1 that his attention was called to a very long, popular tale called Hinilat~nod,~portions of which were known in almost all places he visited. A close follow-up eventually led him to the Sulod settlements in the area of Mt. Siya and Mt. Bocboc, Tapaz, Capiz.