ILONGOT WOMAN AND GIRLS 



The women embroider remarkably well, considering the low state of civilization, and display 

 great ingenuity in fashioning elaborately constructed ornamental work (see page 857) 



abandoned and their supposedly fortu- 

 nate owners look forward to a period 

 free from death, sickness, or injury, and 

 to success in their Iiunting and fishing. 



THE ILONGOTS 



The Ilongots, sometimes called the 

 Ilongotes, or Ibilaos, are numerically 

 even less important than are the Negri- 

 tos. Their number is not exactly known, 

 but probably does not exceed 6,000. 



They are forest dwellers in the strictest 

 sense, living in small groups scattered 

 through an enormous, heavily wooded 

 area, which was originally divided be- 

 tween the provinces of Isabela, Nueva 

 Vizcaya, Tayabas, and Pangasinan, but 

 has lately been all incorporated with the 



province of Nueva Vizcaya, in order to 

 bring the people of this troublesome tribe 

 under one provincial administration. 



While the Negritos are usually content 

 to fight with each other and seldom mo- 

 lest outsiders, the Ilongots have waged 

 war en their more civilized neighbors 

 from the beginning of historic times. 

 The latter have naturally reciprocated, 

 with results disastrous to the Ilongots, 

 whose territory formerly extended as far 

 south as the Laguna de Bay, in immedi- 

 ate proximity to Manila. 



In the northern part of their range 

 the Ilongots come in close touch with 

 the Negritos and freely intermarry with 

 them. Among the people of this section 

 of the tribe Negrito blood is naturally 



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