50 THE MANOBOS OF MINDANAO-GARVAN 



A minute description of the patterns would be needlessly lengthy and necessarily deficient. 

 In general, it may be said that the designs are executed in longitudinal panels, of which there 

 are several lateral and one central, all of which run parallel and warpwise. The main figures 

 are four, two grotesquely suggestive of a crocodile but more nearly portraying a turtle, and 

 two that delineate the fanciful figure of a woman. The intermediate parts of the panels consist 

 of reticulations whose general design depends upon the skill and whim of the weaver. 18 



" The cloth is classified (1) according to the color of the woof threads (pu-gdu-a) into kan-af-vum (hlack) and lin-i-ba (red); (2) according to the 

 design on the central panel— im-pis no lal-ag if it is 25 centimeters wide, bin-a-ga-kis if the central panel is no wider than the lateral ones; (3) accord- 

 ing to the use of narrow (sin-bk-tit) or of broad (pin-al-dw-nn) white stripes; (4) according to the locality in which the cloth is manufactured, the most 

 famous and most prized cloth being called ban-a-hdw-an, which proceeds from the Banahawan district in the Kasauman River Valley in the 

 southeastern part of Mindanao. The Mang-d-gan type is highly esteemed for being very similar in design and dye effects to the Banahawan. It 

 is made by the Tagatmztai group of Mandayas in the Karaga River Valley. 



