110 THE MANOBOS OF MINDANAO— GAR VAN 



to be the bearer of children and the planter of camotes. She can not cany a shield nor thrust a 

 spear. 



Following out these views to their legitimate conclusions, and both experience and obser- 

 vation verify them, it is obvious that there is no evidence of the matriarchate system in Man6bo- 

 land. The husband is the lord of his household, of his wife, and of his children, and I do not 

 hesitate to say, probably would abandon or kill either, if the urgency of a definite occasion 

 required it. 25 



RESIDENCE OF THE SON-IN-LAW AND THE BROTHER-IN-LAW SYSTEM 



After a few months, dependent on the term determined upon in the marriage contract, the 

 young husband returns to his father-in-law's house, to whose family he is now considered to 

 belong, and takes up his permanent residence there. His respect for both his father-in-law and 

 mother-in-law is such that he will not mention them by name. He always addresses them as 

 father-in-law and mother-in-law, respectively. He aids his father-in-law in everything as a son. 

 Every year for 1 2 years during the harvest time he is expected to kill a pig for him. Of course, 

 occasions arise on which he is called upon by his own relatives and has to leave his father-in-law. 

 Sometimes it happens that he does not return, but in such cases he is expected to act in a dip- 

 lomatic way, and leave something, say a big pig, as a substitute for his person. 



Brothers-in-law, and their name is legion, for the term includes all who have married any 

 relative however distant, are expected to aid the relatives of their wives, especially in warfare. 

 And it is my observation that at least such of them as are married to nearer relatives of a given 

 individual, do effectively help him when he really needs either financial or other assistance. 



The brothers-in-law of a warrior chief nearly always live with him or in his immediate 

 vicinity. This custom is maintained, no doubt, both for the protection and for the prestige 

 thereby acquired. 



» Malingian of the upper Simulau, to prevent his wife and children from falling into the hands of the Spanish forces, slew them and himself in 

 full view of the soldiery. I found this incident related in one of the Jesuit letters, to which reference has been made already. 



