A published account from the National Museum of the Philippines, the country's own government heritage and culture authority, the closest institutional analogue here to UNESCO's voice for a national tradition that carries no UNESCO inscription of its own. Use it for the tradition's definition, regional names, and its documented link to the Pasyon text; it is a curatorial institutional account rather than a peer reviewed academic study.
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This is the National Museum of the Philippines' own published account, the country's own government heritage authority documenting the Senakulo tradition and its link to the Pasyon text, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record. NotesStates the performance of Senakulo traces to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when the first Pasyon text emerged; names regional variant names (pasyon y muerte, centurion or hudyuhan, tanggal, pamalandong); documents performances of seven to eight days in some provinces against abbreviated Good Friday versions in urban areas; describes town plaza, church ground and street staging with community built props, costumes and stages. Verified against nationalmuseum.gov.ph 2026-08-09.
Citation
AuthorNational Museum of the Philippines
PublisherNational Museum of the Philippines
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph/2022/04/15/senakulo/
Source TypeHeritage body
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This source names Philippines directly: "from the National Museum of the Philippines, the country's own government heritage and culture authority, the closest institutional analogue here to UNESCO's voice for a national tradition that..."
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Performance Works, 12 claims: 6 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
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