X. DECORATIVE ART 



In decorative art the Tinguian offers sharp contrast to the 

 Igorot and Ifugao, both of whom have developed wood carving to 

 a considerable extent. They also have their bodies tattooed, while 

 the colored lashings on spear shafts, pipe stems, and other objects show 

 a nice appreciation for color and design. In all these the Tinguian is 

 deficient or lacking; he does no wood carving, tattooing is scanty, 

 while his basket work, except that from two small regions, is plain. 

 At times he does make some simple designs on canes, on bamboo rice- 

 planters and weaving sticks, on lime boxes and pipe stems, but these 

 are exceptions rather than the rule. In the region about Lakub, he 

 decorates his jars by cutting the ends of sticks to. form small dies 

 which he presses into the newly fashioned clay (Fig. 22, No. 8), while 

 in Manabo and some other villages the pipe makers cut the bowls of 

 the clay pipes in floral designs or inlay small pieces of brass to form 

 scroll patterns (Fig. 22, Nos. 4-7). These last mentioned designs are 

 so restricted in their manufacture, and are so different from those 

 found elsewhere in Abra, that they cannot be considered as typical. 



The figures incised in bamboo show some realistic motives, such as 

 the fish, birds, and flowers in Fig. 23, No. 1 ; the snake and lizard in 

 No. 2 ; the man in No. 5 ; but the strictly geometrical is dominant in 

 nearly every case. Probably the most typical of this class of work is 

 shown in Nos. 3 and 4 and Fig. 22, Nos. 1, 2, and 3. It should be noted, 

 however, that, where one decorated object is seen, many more entirely 

 plain will be found. In short, ornamentation is uncommon and of 

 minor importance. 



The one place where decoration is dominant is in the weaving, and 

 this is done entirely by the women. Figures 24 and 25 show typical 

 designs which occur in the blankets. Except for No. 8 in Fig. 24, 

 they do not appear to be copies from nature, but all have realistic in- 

 terpretations. Fig. 24 shows eight designs drawn by native weavers, 

 which are identified as follows : 



1. A fish. 



2. Weaving on a Spanish bed or chair seat. 



3. Pineapple. 



4. A heart. 



5. Fishhooks. 



6. A crab. 



7. Cross section of a pineapple. 



8. A horse. 



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