BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya—Provincial officials are asking the help of Novo Vizcayanos here and abroad who may have cultural artifacts of the province to return them to the provincial museum “for educational purposes and cultural enlightenment.”
This came after Romana Dulnuan, cultural coordinator of the Nueva Vizcaya State University here, said during a meeting of the Provincial Council for the Culture and the Arts that some artifacts brought out of the country have not yet been returned until now.
Gov. Carlos Padilla said the son of one of the missionaries of the New Tribes Mission, which helped convert the upland tribes to Christianity, is willing to travel from the United States to the province to return the artifacts collected by his father when he worked in the Bugkalot communities in the 1950s.
“We are appealing and encouraging those who are in possession of our artifacts to kindly inform us and we will make arrangements for their return,” Padilla said.