bandala

noun2

1. •
   A system imposed by the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines in the early 17th century which required farmers to sell their products to the government for extremely low prices, and sometimes without ever being paid.

   • Another exploitative device was instituted by Governor Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera during the first half of the seventeenth century . This was the bandala. — 1975
2. •
   A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

   • The fibers of the inner petioles, which are softer but not so strong as the outer, are called tupus, and sold with bandala, or mixed with tapis and used in the native weaving. — 1916

noun1

1. •
   The slaves of the Rizeghat and Habbania Arabs and their descendants.

   • The Bandala of the Western Bahr el Ghazal have been described in an interesting article by Captain G. K. C. Hebbert in Volume VIII (1925) of Sudan Notes and Records. — 1930