A KAI^INGA MAN WiCARlNG TYPICAI, DRESS AND 



orname;nts 



They "bang" their hair over the forehead, and the 

 back hair is allowed to grow long and fall down over 

 their shoulders. 



with rags to form a sort of 

 cliignon extending horizontally 

 from the back of the head. 

 Many of the men wear pecu- 

 liar nets above their foreheads 

 for the apparent purpose of 

 keeping their hair out of their 

 eyes. Clouts are often elabo- 

 rately ornamented with bead- 

 work, and the sheaths of ar- 

 rows are adorned with beads 

 and tassels. Infinite patience 

 and pains are required to fash- 

 ion these elaborately con- 

 structed ornaments from the 

 few and simple materials at 

 hand. Woe betide the man 

 who rides a white horse into 

 the Ilongot country, for, unless 

 he keeps a guard over it, he 

 will find its inane missing and 

 its tail cropped to the skin ! 



Ilongot men set special store 

 by steel armlets with inlaid 

 brass band. It is difficult to 

 obtain these armlets, as their 

 owners are usually unwilling 

 to part with them on any rea- 

 sonable terms. 



Ilongots use bows and ar- 

 rows, both in warfare and in 

 hunting deer and wild hogs. 

 Most of their arrows have 

 quite skillfully shaped steel or 

 iron heads. Their other wea- 

 pons of offense are war knives, 

 carried in curved wooden 

 sheaths decorated with metal 

 bands, and poorly made lances 

 of small size, the heads being 

 hardly larger than good-sized 

 arrow heads. The shafts of 

 their lances are frequently or- 

 namented with spiral bands of 

 metal or of vegetable sub- 

 stances. For protection against 

 arrows the Ilongots use long, 

 narrow, and very light wooden 

 shields of a peculiar and highly 

 characteristic form. These 

 shields are almost invariably 

 painted a dull brick red. Or- 

 naments fashioned from beads, 

 hog bristles, white horse-hair, 

 and threads of brightly colored 

 cotton or worsted are often 

 worn by the men about their 

 necks, their waists, and the 

 calves of their legs. 



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