2368 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. VII, Art. 112 
on which the fabric is attached is fastened to the wall, the weaver 
squats on the mat covered floor and the other end of the frame 
is attached to her body. ‘The finer pieces of clothing are usually 
embroidered with colored cotton threads or yarn in a mosaic 
fashion. The Bagobos in the Mount Apo region sewed colored 
beads on their better wearing apparel in a similar fashion. The 
women wear jackets and sack skirts, with strings of colored beads 
about their necks. The men wear short pantaloons, occasionally 
jackets and usually blackish armlets or bracelets braided out 
of nito which is a species of Lygodium. All the men 
have bolos and spears, and are the chosen of the Lord. 
They wear knapsacks on their backs when they travel. In 
these they carry trinckets of short polished bamboo tubes 
beautifully carved on the exterior. In some of these they 
carry lime for their betelnut chewing. At their sides they 
carry one or more of small boxes woven with fine rattan 
strands and then thouroughly pitched or tarred on the out- 
side to make it impervious to rain. These contain betelnuts, 
tobacco leaf and the like. I have seen the native split open 
a rattan or bejuco stem twenty feet long into four, six or eight 
strands, occording to the thickness of the specimen, dressed 
each of the strands and then carefully braided them into 
a rope which was terminated at one end by the solid rattan 
stem and the other end was carefully made into a loop. 
These ropes are likewise made impervious and are used as 
snares for catching deer. In their houses are many other 
crude articles. Round or nearly square receptacles made of bark. 
Hollowed ends of blocks of wood and sets of very hard and 
heavy wood pestles for hulling or pulverizing purposes. These 
natives as well as those in the mountainous sections of the Davao 
gulf region always possess more or less of old Chinese imported 
crude ware. Their table was a slab of a tree buttress and 
their cooked camotes with other dishes of greens were placed 
on it. Then the natives circled around it on the floor for 
their meals. I was always amused over the fierce competition 
they encountered with their dogs who crowded in between them 
and frequently stepped or jumped across the table set with food. 
Alb wild tribes have their priests, either men or women, 
and even in this small settlement there is a pagan priest. The 
priest in this community had two wives, one an old woman of his 
