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and the palms turned forward. (Pl. LVI, fig. 3.) Her steps are less 
active than those of the man and she occasionally stoops forward until 
the tips of her fingers almost touch the earth. At times she moves 
forward by bending the toes, keeping her feet almost constantly in contact 
with the earth. 
The Benguet-Lepanto Jgorots are monogamous. Children are be- 
trothed at a very early age and often marry at the age of puberty or even 
before. Strong attachments are not uncommon among the married 
people and divorce is relatively rare. 
Sickness is attributed to anitos. Very few native medicines are em- 
ployed in treating the sick and great reliance is placed in cafaos, at which 
carabaos, cattle, pigs, or chickens, according to the wealth of the sick 
person, are killed. Gradually, however, southern Benguet representatives 
of this tribe have learned the value of the white man’s medicine, many of 
them having been treated in the hospital at Baguio. A great triumph 
was scored a short time since when the wife of an influential chief named 
Matéo Carifio, was persuaded to place herself in the hands of an American 
physician when she was nearly dead from dysentery, and was cured. 
When a person dies, a funeral feast is held which frequently lasts until 
the expense involved equals the value of all the property of the deceased. 
While the feast is in progress the body is kept, usually in a sitting posi- 
tion, in or under the house. It is ultimately placed in a wooden coffin 
and removed to a burial place, which is often in a cave or under a great 
rock. (Pl. LXVI, fig. 1.) If the deceased is a distinguished person 
his relatives visit his grave from time to time and bring him food and 
drink. 
The people of the Kayapa district in Benguet and the so-called Busaos 
who inhabit the mountains near Buguias and Loo are the wildest represen- 
tatives of this tribe. They show few indications of association with their 
Ifugao neighbors, from whom they are separated by high mountains. 
Along the Bontoc and Abra boundaries there has been some intermarriage 
with the Bontoe Igorots and Tingians, with consequent confusion of 
customs. However, on the whole the line between the territory of these 
several peoples is quite sharply drawn. 
While all the settlements of the Benguet-Lepanto Igorots have their 
own governments, organized in accordance with the white man’s law, 
there still remain Jgorot representatives of the families from which came 
the chiefs of former days, who have more influence than have any of the 
present elected officials. Not a few individuals of these families have 
attained to considerable wealth. 
All in all, the Benguet-Lepanto Igorots must be considered far more 
highly civilized than any other non-Christian northern Luzon tribe except 
the Tingians. Their boys are now attending school in considerable 
numbers and are proving to be bright pupils. For a long time they 
