vin CONTENTS 



Part I. Descriptive — Continued. 



Chapter III. A survey of the material and sociological culture of the Man6bos of eastern 



Mindanao — Continued. Page 



General sociological culture 20 



Domestic life 20 



Marital relations 20 



Pregnancy, birth, and childhood 20 



Medicine, sickness, and death 21 



Social and family enjoyments 21 



Political organization 22 



System of government and social control 22 



Methods of warfare 23 



Intertribal and analogous relations 24 



Administration of justice 25 



General principles and various laws 25 



Regulations governing domestic relations and property; customary procedure in settle- 

 ment of disputes 26 



Chapter IV. Religious ideas and mental characteristics in general 28 



A brief survey of religion 28 



The basis, influence, and machinery of religion 28 



The hierarchy of Man6bo divinities, beneficent and malignant 28 



Priests, their functions, attributes, and equipment 29 



The main characteristics of Man6bo religion 29 



Mental and other attainments and characteristics 30 



Part II. General Material Culture 37 



Chapter V. The Manobo home 37 



In general 37 



Motives that determine the selection of the site 37 



Religious motives 37 



Material motives 37 



Religious ceremonies connected with the erection of a house 38 



Structure of the house 38 



The materials 38 



The dimensions and plan of construction 38 



The floor 38 



The roof and the thatch 39 



The walls . 39 



The doorway and the ladder 40 



Internal arrangements 40 



Decorations 40 



The furniture and equipment of the house 40 



The underpart and the environment of the house 42 



Order and cleanliness of the house 42 



Chapter VI. Dress 44 



General remarks 44 



Delicacy in exposure of the person 44 



Variety in quantity and quality of clothes 44 



The use of bark cloth 44 



Dress as an indication of rank 44 



Dress in general 44 



Preferential colors in dress 45 



The man's dress 45 



Hats and headkerchiefs 45 



The jacket 46 



The lower garment 47 



The girdle 47 



The betel-nut knapsack 47 



The woman's dress 48 



The jacket 48 



The upper Agusan style 48 



The style of the central group 48 



The girdle and its pendants 48 



The skirt--. - - 49 



