BUTUAN ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK BALANGAY The Balangay Site Museum is a field unit of the National Museum, similar to Butuan Museum which located near the City Hall and Golden Tara Replica. It keeps the remnants of the earliest watercraft called “Balanghai" (and now more popularly known as the “Butuan Boat”) and other cultural materials associated with the boat like human and animal remains, coffins, pots, jewelries, hunting goods, ceramics and other items used for subsistence. The Balangays are large, wooden plank-built and edge-pegged boats. This method of construction is typical to Southeast Asian boat making. The planks are one continuous piece carved to shape and made of hardwood identified as Heretiara Litorales, locally known as Dongon. BUTUAN ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK in BALANGAY LIBERTAD The boat was 15 meters in length and 3 meters across the beam. Only in Butuan – and no other locality in the Philippines – has there been such rare and...