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as a body politic is unknown in this Archipelago. The Malayan has never by 
his own effort achieved so important a political organization. Such great and 
effective confederacies as we find among the North American Indians are far 
beyond the capacity of the Filipino of any grade. For example, among the 
. powerful and numerous Igorot of northern Luzon the sole political body is in the 
independent community. * * * 
Errors in nomenclature prevail everywhere in the Islands, Sometimes three or 
four different terms have been applied by different localities or towns to identical 
peoples, and all these designations have gone to swell the reputed number of 
Philippine tribes... Thus Blumentritt credits fully eighty-two such distinct tribes; 
the Jesuits, who have been diligent collectors of information here, as everywhere, 
report sixty-seven tribes, and the enumerators for the census turned in on their 
schedules a total of about one hundred and sixteen different or differing titles, 
which had to be explained and reduced to system. 
Dr. Barrows, in his history, adopts the following classifications for the 
tribes of northern Luzon: 
NEGRITO RACE. 
Tribe, Neariros. (Synonyms: Iva, Era, A@ta, BALuGA, DUMAGAT, 
ABUNLON. ) 
Habitat: Cagayan, Isabela, Hokos Norte, Abra, Nueva Vizcaya, Tayabas 
(Principe and Infanta), Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Rizal, Pangasinan, Tarlac, 
Zambales, Pampanga, and Bataan. ' 
MALAY RACE, 
Tribe, IGoror. 
Habitat: The Cordillera Central from the extreme north of Luzon to the 
plains of Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija. 
Under Jgorot, he employs various dialect group designations such as 
the Gaddang, Dadayag, and Mayoyao, said to be divided solely by slight 
differences of dialect. He states that the exact number of these groups 
has not thoroughly been worked out, but that he has personally studied 
and collected vocabularies of twelve and believes that this number includes 
all except minor variations and one branch in the extreme north of the 
cordillera, called Apayaos. This last people, he says, is on both slopes 
of the cordillera, but far more numerous on the Cagayan side. 
Referring further to these dialect groups of people, he mentions the 
following: 
DADAYAG. 
Habitat: The head waters of the Rio Chico de Cagayan in Itaves district, 
Cagayan Province, where they occupy the low foothills of the Cordillera 
Central. 
TADDANG. 
Habitat: The region farther south, along the same foothills as the Da- 
dayag, extending through Isabela. 
KALINGA. 
Habitat: The region east of the Dadayag and Gaddang. 
BANAOS. 
Habitat: The region midway between Balbalasan and Labuangan, as well 
as the Saltan River valley, all in the Province of Bontoe. They are regarded 
by Dr. Barrows as the prototype of the present more civilized Tingian. 
