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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



3^an, toward the province of Isabela, 

 we have the Iloiwot communities 

 in which Dr. Jones worked, and lost 

 his life, DumabatOj Kagadyangan 

 and others. It may be that these II- 

 ongot communicate with the Taga- 

 log town of Kasiguran. In all of 

 these communities together there 

 are probably only a couple of thou- 

 sand souls at most. Few communi- 

 ties have as many as twenty houses 

 or 200 souls; the most are isolated 

 groups of four or five married 

 couples and their immediate rela- 

 tions. The harsh nature of their 

 country, unsanitary life, occasional 

 epidemics and most of all their per- 



A Young Woman of Oyao, Nueva 



VlZCAYA. 



Photograph taken in 1904. 



An Ilongot Man of Bayyait, Nueva 



Vizcaya. 



The photograph shows the curious 



deer skin cape and hat worn by the 



men when hunting or traveling in the 



rain. 



petual warfare contribute toward 

 their diminution rather than their 

 increase. 



Like other primitive Malayan 

 people who live in the forest, the 

 Ilongot support life by culti- 

 vating a forest clearing or " kain- 

 gin." The great trees are girdled, 

 men ascend their smooth clean 

 trunks a hundred feet or more 

 and daringly lop away their 

 branches and stems that the 

 life of the tree may be destroyed 

 and the sunlight be admitted to 

 the earth below. At Patakgao I 

 was shown some beautiful long 



