Tausūg people
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The Tausug are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Sulu Archipelago and northeastern coastal areas of Borneo, which spans present-day Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Large Tausug populatio
A Tausug woman wearing traditional attire and performing a pangalay dance
The chieftains of Sulu, from The Philippine Islands (c. 1899).
Tausūg horsemen in Sulu, taken on 30 December 1899.
Mat Salleh (marked with an "X"), a Bajau-Suluk warrior widely known in North Borneo (present day Sabah).
Moro people
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The Moro people or Bangsamoro people are the 13 Muslim-majority ethnolinguistic Austronesian groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan, native to the Philippine region known as the Bangsamoro, which is co
Tausūg people
…of Sulu, which has led to tensions with neighboring predominantly-Christian ethnic groups. Today, the Tausug form a part of the wider Muslim-majority Moro political identity in the Philippines, and have continued their shared struggle for self-determination. This has culminated in a decades-long insurgency…
Moro people of Mindanao playing a traditional Maguindanaon pair of agung (large hanging gongs in the kulintang ensemble) using balu (rubber-tipped wooden beaters).
Three Moro men from the Sulu Archipelago in the 1900s.
The kalis, a traditional sword among Moro cultures
The state boat, a dapang, of Sultan Harun Ar-Rashid of Sulu (c. 1898)