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The Zgorots of Benguet make little or no cloth, but some of those of 
Lepanto bordering on the TJingian country have learned the art of 
weaving from their neighbors, and the same is true of some of the in- 
habitants of the rancherias near the Bontoc border, who weave beautiful 
blankets. Basket ware of good quality and in considerable variety is 
quite generally manufactured. 
The Benguet-Lepanto Igorots, both men and women, carry burdens on 
their backs as do the Bontoe /gorots, differing in this respect from the 
Ifugaos who, so far as possible, carry everything on their heads. 
Although seventy-seven years ago the Jgorots of Benguet offered armed 
resistance to the Spaniards who first entered the province, they are now 
the most pacific of people. When the first Spanish expeditions pene- 
trated their territory, the Benguet Zgorots seem to have used bows and 
arrows, but this is no longer the case. In an emergency it is still pos- 
sible for them to hunt up a few old shields and lances, but many years 
have passed since they have made war on any other tribe or committed 
any act of armed aggression. ‘They do not take heads, and there seems 
to be no evidence that they have ever done so. Their war shields were, 
it is said, usually ornamented with the carved figure of aman. (PI. LXI, 
figs. 1,d and 2,d.) Lances are far more commonly met with than shields 
at the present time. They have been retained because they are useful in 
hunting. In general, their heads are smaller and less well made than are 
those of the lances of the Bontoc /gorots, which they resemble in shape. 
The music of the Benguet-Lepanto Igorots is highly characteristic, and 
several instruments are used in producing it. Of these the most peculiar 
is a pair of long, slender-barreled wooden drums, open at one end and 
having the other covered with pigskin or lizard skin. (Pl. LVI, figs. 1 
and 2.) These drums are played with the hands. The operator can 
change the pitch of the tones produced by pressing his arm or leg, or both, 
against the wooden barrel. The gansa, which is always used when music 
is wanted, is played with a short stick or slat of bamboo. (Pl. LVI, 
figs. 1 and 2.) Usually there is also one musician who beats together a 
stone and a bit of steel or iron. During certain months of the year a 
Benguet Jgorot woman will not go on the trail without carrying and 
constantly playing the bamboo musical instrument shown in Plate LIX, 
figs. 1,b and c. This instrument is carried in the left hand and is made to 
vibrate by striking one of its prongs against the right wrist. The char- 
acter of the sound thus produced is changed by thumbing the hole near 
the septum at the undivided end. The Benguet Igorots are also fond of 
vocal music. They sing frequently at their feasts and occasionally when 
on the trail or resting beside it. 
In the dance which is most commonly seen, a man with outstretched 
arms from which blankets are hung represents a bird. He dances with 
active movements of the feet and with much flexing of the arms, wrists, 
and hands. His fair partner dances with her hands stretched upward 
