A DEAD KALINGA GIRI. 



The dead of several of the northern tribes are kept seated in chairs like the one shown in 

 this picture until their funeral feasts, which often last many days, are over 



rattan lashings. These shields are in- 

 variably of the peculiarly graceful pat- 

 tern shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tions and differ completely in form from 

 the shields of all other Philippine wild 

 tribes. 



War parties often number 50 or more 

 individuals. The Kalinga is by no means 

 above lying in ambush, but he not infre- 



quently attacks in the open. When two 

 or three men are down, the scrimmage 

 resolves itself, on the part of their ene- 

 mies, into an efifort to take and get away 

 with their heads, while their friends 

 endeavor to save their bodies intact. 

 When a Avar party has taken one or more 

 heads it returns to the village whence it 

 came. 



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