BAGUIO, Philippines –
But the eldest daughter of the late sculptor Anselmo Bayang Day-ag, said the credit was a mistake, and that city hall and the Lions Club in Baguio should start correcting it. According to local historian Emmanuel Brazil Viray, Nanyac, a woodcarver by profession with no known stone works, was not responsible for the creation of the statue.
“Prior to the artistic sculpting, the limestone was prepared by a group of engineers and miners, then ‘the artistic actual carving of the facade’ was rendered by Anselmo Bayang Day-ag, an Ifugao and Isinay artist and woodcarver from the Cordillera Administrative Region. The construction began in 1968 but was interrupted,” Viray wrote.Day has asserted that her father and Nanyac were “victims of this name change done by the Lions Club-Baguio Chapter.
Ng said the history of the Lion’s Head has been a source of dispute for many years, and has not been resolved to this day.
Lol. That lion started to deteriorate when they painted it. It even looked like it was wearing a make-up at one point… I do not see why this still continues to be a landmark for Baguio City. It’s ugly and It causes unnecessary traffic.
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