Miguel Diaz was with me at the Iloilo Museum when we interviewed the Panay Bukidnons. My advantage over him was that I could understand and speak the Bukidnon dialect -- a combination of Hiligaynon (dialect of Iloilo) and kinaray-a (dialect of towns in Central Panay). Miguel showed them pictures of different tenegres (in his iPhone) for identification.
The Panay Bukidnons used to be called Mundo. In fact the museum labels on their swords still carry this name. Mundo, meaning "wild", is no longer considered "politically correct".
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