B'LAAN ANIMALS........DAD AMANAF IN B'LAAN LANGUAGE

The ownership of animals such as carabao, pig, horse and chicken, are often indicate of a person's wealth and status within Highland B'laan society. Only a wealthy man would have the necessary resources to purchase own and support a few carabao. Carabao is an indigenous livestock resources whose important role in farming activities......One carabao can be used the obligations of songgod and can be exchanged for a wife. Carabao not only physically embody a majority of a family's wealth, but are also vital component in the agriculture process. Carabao provides one of the only sufficient means currently available to the Highland B'laan of tilling the soil in preparation for a food, usually corn crop. Families who own carabao are able to extend their economic base, as well as their net work of bedtime and obligation by loaning their carabao to other families who are without their own animals. Without carabao, the B'laan would be forced to rely on the manual tilling of their land. carabao in the Highland B'laan region, with the formation of gold deposits. The carabao, which is believed to be the creation of arfunda a named of guardian spirit within the subcategory of fon bolol or spirit of the hill or mountain, is believe to leave behind a deposit of gold where ever it settles. In the Highand B'laan region, gold is therefore associated with the carabao or calebew.