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line, but dance at one side of it. The mouth-organ as well as the bamboo 
instrument above described are used to provide the music. 
The Jlongots are polygamous. One man may have several wives who 
not infrequently all live together in one house. However, if he is 
wealthy, he may construct as many houses as he has wives, the dwellings 
being built close together. Many men also secretly keep queridas or 
mistresses, but if this fact becomes known they are obliged to pay fines 
to the relatives of their lawful wives, and this act also makes lawful wives 
of their queridas. 
The longots not infrequently abandon their sick. They are said not 
to use medicines for ordinary illnesses, but only in the treatment of 
wounds and in connection with childbirth. They try to cure their sick 
by stuffing them with food. 
When a death occurs, the members of the family mourn throughout 
the ensuing night, keeping up a series of doleful cries which may be heard 
at a great distance. arly the following morning they desert the house 
in which the death occurred, leaving it not to return, but they take 
with them all articles of value. The dead person has the dwelling 
as his sepulchre. Sometimes, when the house of a sick person is large and 
valuable and it is evident that he is likely to die, in order to avoid 
abandoning the more pretentious structure a smaller one is hastily con- 
structed and the patient is removed to it before death occurs. 
The Ilongots punish robbery among themselves—that is, among the 
people of a single rancheria—by obliging the thief to grasp a piece of red- 
hot iron. However, if a man from one rancheria steals from an indi- 
vidual belonging to another, he is held to have committed a praise- 
worthy act. A murder among the people of a rancheria leads to a feud 
between the two families concerned. When a person from one settlement 
kills a person belonging to another, war between the two rancherias 
results. Adultery is punishable by fine paid by the offending person to 
the family of the one offended. 
The anito images of the Jlongots * are made of grass or leaves and are 
usually set up on river banks. After the necessary measures to propitiate 
them have been taken they are abandoned or even burned. 
In general it must be said of the //ongots that, while superior to the 
. Negritos, they are of inferior intelligence and of a somewhat unreliable 
and treacherous disposition, which makes them far more dangerous than 
°The word anito is used by the Jbilaos, the Kalingas, the Ifugaos, the Bontoc 
Igorots, the Benguet-Lepanto Jgorots, and the Tingians. Primarily it seems to 
mean a spirit, and in very many cases the term is employed to designate the spirits 
of the dead. It is also applied to images of men and women carved from wood 
or made by tying leaves or grass together which have to do in one way or another 
with efforts to secure the assistance of good spirits and to propitiate evil ones. 
Gifts are made either to the visible images of anitos or to the invisible spirits 
bearing the same name and various propitiatory ceremonies are performed, the 
performance of such ceremonies being termed by some tribes “making anito.” 
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