Documentary Sources
Primary documentary sources about Lakandula are sparse, so much so that there has been debate about the actual name of the Lakan. Dery identifies three types of sources regarding Lakandula:
- direct accounts of Legaspi’s 1571 conquest, and indirect references from other documents of the period;
- a record group in the Philippine National Archives collectively referred to as the "Lacandola Documents" containing mostly 18th century Geneaological Documents; and
- folklore, which “suggests prior lineage where documentation definitively identifies only descendants”.
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