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10 Traditions or the Tingutan 



feed the chickens and pigs (p. 93), while the workers from the fields, or 

 hunters with their dogs and game, add to the general din and excite- 

 ment (p. 80). When night comes on, if it be in the dry season, bonfires 

 spring up in different parts of the village, and about them the girls and 

 women gather to spin. Here also come the men and boys, to lounge and 

 talk (p. 117). A considerable portion of the man's time is taken up in 

 preparation for or actual participation in warfare (p. 74). We have al- 

 ready seen that the constant danger of enemies makes it advisable for 

 the women to go in parties, even to the village spring. One tale informs 

 us of a girl who is left alone to guard the rice field and is promptly killed 

 by the alzado; 1 another states that "all the tattooed Igorot are enemies" 

 (pp.43, 155, 161). 



Revenge for the loss of relations or townspeople is a potent cause of 

 hostile raids; old feuds may be revived by taunts; but the chief incentive 

 appears to be the desire for renown, to be known as "a man who goes to 

 fight in the enemies' towns" (pp. 90, 59). 



Warriors sometimes go in parties, sometimes alone, but generally in 

 couples (p. 67). At times they lie in ambush and kill young girls who 

 go for water, or old men and women who pass their hiding place (p. 97). 

 Again they go out boldly, armed with shield, spear, and headaxe; they 

 strike their shields as they go and announce their presence to the enemy 

 (p. 103). In five of the tales the heroes challenge their opponents and 

 then refuse to be the first to use their weapons. It is only when their 

 foes have tried in vain to injure them that they enter the conflict. In 

 such cases whole towns are wiped out of existence and a great number of 

 heads and a quantity of jars and other booty is sent back to the towns 

 of the victors (p. 104). Peace is restored in one instance by the payment 

 of a number of valuable jars (p. 91). 



Upon the return of a successful war party, the relatives meet them at 

 the gate of the town and compel them to climb the sangap; 2 then invita- 

 tions are sent out to fiiends and relatives in neighboring towns to come 

 and aid in the celebration of the victory (p. 140). When they arrive at 

 the entrance of the village they are met by the townspeople, who offer 

 them liquor and then conduct them to the houses where they feast and 

 dance to the music of gansas (p. 126). 3 Finally the captured heads are 

 stuck on the sagang* and are placed by the gate, the spring, and, if sufti- 



1 A term applied to any of the wilder head-hunting tribes. 



2 Ladders are placed on each side of the town gate and are inclined toward one 

 another until they meet at the top. Returning warriors enter the village by climbing 

 up the one and descending the other, never through the gate. 



* Copper gongs. 



4 Sharpened bamboo poles which pass through the foramen magnum. 



