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The Zlongots like to wear about the neck, the waist, or over one shoulder 
and under the opposite arm, great coils of fine copper wire or of a fine 
cord, the latter woven in ornamental patterns from strips of bark or fiber 
stained in different colors. They are also very fond of wearing coils of 
split rattan of a scarlet color, which they say is the natural one. (PI. 
VII, fig. 3.) They have other ornaments, consisting of tufts of bristles 
or tassels of fine thread, to which, with infinite pains, they attach bright 
bits of metal, feathers, ete. (Pl. XXYV, fig. 5, b.) Many of the bristles 
are ringed about with fine threads of bright colors. 'Tobacco pouches 
_ of bark cloth are decorated with ornamental stitch-patterns of colored 
thread and with bright-colored seeds. Lime-boxes of bamboo are some- 
times ornamented with scratch-patterns, darkened after the Negrito 
fashion with grease and soot. Elaborate armlets of polished bands of 
metal of different colors are commonly worn by the men. 
In short, the Zlongots display a high appreciation of ornaments, and 
with the very limited means at their disposal show much patience and 
ingenuity in fashioning them. 
I have never observed Jlongots who were tattooed to any extent, but 
Governor Villamor informs me that he has seen men whose chests were 
covered with tattoo marks. They do not ornament themselves with 
scar-patterns, as do the Negritos. 
Some of their houses are fairly well constructed and of considerable 
size. (Pl. XXX, fig. 2.) They are built on piles set firmly in the 
ground, or on the trunks of trees which have been cut off at a considerable 
distance above its level. ‘To enter a house one must usually scramble up 
an inclined pole, which may or may not have notches cut in it. The 
house often has an outside platform. The floor is made of bamboo or 
of the smooth stems of saplings tied in place with rattan or creepers. 
The sides may be low and open, or high and covered with palm or rattan 
leaves or with grass. The roof is well thatched and has a good slope; 
it ends in a short ridge from each end of which there projects a pointed 
piece of wood, curving upward with a broad sweep. This form of roof 
and type of roof ornament are peculiar to the Zlongots. Not all of the 
houses have the pair of sticks projecting from the ridge of the roof like 
a pair of horns, but most of the better ones are so decorated. While 
some of the houses are wretched affairs (Pl. XXX, fig. 1), all, so far 
as my observation goes, are better than Negrito huts. 
In addition to their houses, the Mongots make small, but well- 
constructed, rice granaries, on the roofs of which often may be seen the 
same curved and pointed pieces of wood which appear on those of their 
dwellings. 
These people often live together in considerable numbers. Their 
houses are usually scattered irregularly about clearings made by girdling 
forest trees and cutting and burning underbrush. 
They keep dogs for use in the chase. Occasionally, also, they have pigs 
