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The people of this tribe do not blacken their teeth, as do the wild 
Tingians of Apayao, nor do they chew betel nut. 
Adult men usually wear a clout (Pl. III, fig. 1), although its place 
may be taken by a girdle about the waist and a bag attached to the girdle, 
which hangs down in front and serves the double purpose of apron and 
pocket. Very old men not infrequently have blankets, but young men 
scorn to use them. In addition, every man has a small cap, usually made 
of basket work, but sometimes of wood, which is worn on the back of 
the head and helps to confine the back hair. (Pl. VI, figs. 1 and 2; 
Pl. IX, fig 5.) In a few of the southern and western towns, where the 
men have cut their hair in imitation of the Benguet-Lepanto Igorots, a 
head-band is worn instead of this cap. In addition to the articles above 
mentioned, many of the men possess conical rain-hats covered with wax 
and thus made waterproof, and all have basket-work sleeping caps. 
The ordinary dress of the women consists of a single, short piece of 
cloth woven from bark fiber which is wrapped about the body and extends 
from the waist to the knees. The opening between the two ends usually 
comes along the outside of the right leg. This skirt is held in place at 
the waist by a girdle of similar material. From the ends of this girdle 
there project long threads on which are strung seeds resembling the 
beads commonly known as “Job’s tears.” (Pl. XIII, fig. 1.) Most of 
the women also own cotton blankets, which are worn for warmth in 
inclement weather and also when the owners are dancing. (PI. LIV, 
fig. 2.) 
Women as well as men often strip before wading streams, and it is 
not unusual to see adults of both sexes going about entirely naked during 
rainy weather, or when engaged in dirty field-work. 
Both men and women wear quite elaborate ornaments. Small holes 
are pierced through the lobes of the ears and are then stretched by forcing 
into them a constantly increasing number of small pieces of wood, about 
the size of matches, until they reach huge dimensions. (Pl. XXI, 
fig. 1.) Into these holes are thrust great rings of bamboo or blocks of 
wood in which coins, pieces of metal or of looking-glass, or bits of brightly 
colored stone may be set. At times, brass, silver, or gold ear ornaments 
of’a pattern resembling those seen among the Benguet-Lepanto Igorots 
are used. (PI. VI, figs. 1 and 2; Pl. XVIII, figs. 1 and 2.) 
The men often wear in their hair brass tobacco-pipes of more or less 
elaborate design, from the bowls of which hang metal chains supporting 
metal pipe cleaners. (Pl. VI, fig. 1.) Huge earrings of metal are 
sometimes seen and the spoons of the unwary traveler are apt to dis- 
appear temporarily, reappearing Jater in the ears of the thief, after 
undergoing a very complete metamorphosis. The men often wear about 
the waist, chains of highly polished copper or brass wire (PI. ITI, fig. 1), 
and about the neck, necklaces of seeds, boar’s tusks, or dog’s teeth. 
Armlets of boar’s tusks, worn above the elbow, are quite common. 
