Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Manananggot



This guy climbs all the coconut trees (no harness) to collect the juice from the premature fruit stalk which he then makes into a tuba (local coconut wine).

(Word mananaggot comes from the rootword 'sanggot', a curved knife used to etch a young fruit stalk. Manananggot is the tuba gatherer and maker and sanggot is the tool of the trade.)

7 comments:

Lois said...

Looks like that job could be dangerous if you aren't careful!

nino said...

Spiderman doesn't have anything on this guy! ;-)

Anonymous said...

Really a nice photo. I didn't really see the guy until I looked again.

Tara said...

Hino ito? lil bro? LOL.

Happy AlegreS said...

Taga-samar ako pero yana ko pala hibaru-i kun diin tikang an word nga manananggot. I thought it came from the verb "sanggot" which refers to the act of collecting the juice. It's the first time I heard of that curved knife although I already saw one many years ago. Siguro, kay diri man sanggot an tawag siton sa amon ;)

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Davamerce said...

Murag silingan namo sa una.inig kabuntag,bibit dayon sa iyang sugong.