What does the story of tambuli show about the barrio?

Rice fields below. To his ears came the sound of the tambuli, long and mellow. Three times it sounded and he knew that it was Kuya Endong who was blowing the horn, calling back the carabaos and cattle from beyond the creek.
How he longed to have a horn which he could call his own- one which he could carry along with him and show to his friends and playmates! He had long dreamed of having one which he could blow as much as he wished. But his father had time again said that he was too young to own a tambuli. To the hill people, the tambuli was a precious piece of property. They used it for gathering their domestic animals together, and, on stormy nights, in locating a lost or belated member of the family.
He recalled the day when he received a severe scolding and spanking from his father on account of a tambuli. He had sneaked into his father’s bedroom and, placing a chair near the wall and standing tiptoe on it, had reached for the tambuli which was hanging from a bamboo peg. He had carefully taken it down and out of the house, and, once in the field, began blowing it with all his might. The sound which he produced scared the carabaos and caused them to run away instead of gathering them together. His father, coming home from the cockfight, caught him unaware, and putting him over his knees, beat him till he shouted for mercy. He was then given a long sermon and made to promise not to touch the tambuli again.
But Nanoy was not daunted by this. So strong was the fascination of the tambuli over him that the spankings and the warnings did not deter him from learning how to blow it properly. HE continu4ed to go to his father’s room and g
“I was just dork, for his father was a believer in the need of preparing children for the struggle for existence early in life. How skillfully he helped remove the hide! How adept he was in cutting! His hands were guided by the great purpose brewing in his mind.
At last the work was ended. The beef had been distributed among the different members of th
Nanoy did not wait for a second command. He was off, and in a moment