GUINliD, A CDLEBRATKD IFUGAO CHIE;F 



Note the peculiar head dress and curious ornaments. They 

 seldom go about without weapons; the handle of his knife can 

 be seen on the left side 



proval and shrills its monotonous war 

 cry. Finally, when his voice has grown 

 hoarse and his muscles are tired, the 

 principal actor retires and another takes 

 his place. As darkness comes on a blaz- 

 ing fire is lighted within the cafiao circle. 

 Ultimately the young and vigorous 

 warriors who participated in the recent 

 fight are succeeded by the old men, who 



have been kept at home by 

 the burden of years and 

 infirmities. Strong drink 

 has caused the dying fire 

 in their veins to flare up 

 for the moment. Each of 

 them has a history of war- 

 like deeds, which he pro- 

 ceeds to recount. The 

 crowd already knows his 

 story by heart, and, when 

 the forgetfulness of age 

 or that of intoxication 

 causes him to falter, 

 prompts him and shouts 

 with laughter at the joke. 

 Gradually the hasi be- 

 gins to exert its stupefy- 

 ing efifect ; but so long as 

 the music, the dancing, 

 and the shouting continue 

 every one manages to keep 

 awake. At last food is 

 passed, and in the interval 

 during which it is being 

 consumed the liquor gets 

 a fair chance to work. As 

 the east begins to glow 

 with the coming dawn, 

 men and women fall asleep 

 in their places, or hasten 

 to their homes, and the 

 canao ends, for the time 

 being at least. 



I note that the editor of 

 one of the great American 

 journals has stated that 

 I exaggerate the wild- 

 ness of the "Igorotes," by 

 which tribal designation 

 he apparently means the 

 wild hill men of northern 

 Luzon taken collectively. 



I wish that he might 

 have sat by my side at a 

 Kalinga head canao which 

 I was forced to witness at 

 Boia when I visited that 

 place with one American and one Fili- 

 pino companion on a trip which took 

 me for days through territory where 

 neither a white man nor a Filipino had 

 ever been seen before. ^Would that I 

 had the words of a iCipling to describe 

 what I then saw ; but if there is anything 

 wilder to he seen, may I be spared from, 

 seeinsf it ! 



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