the skirt serves in lieu of 

 a pocket. Upper garments 

 of any sort are the very 

 rare exception. The wo- 

 men allow their hair to 

 grow long, and do not cut 

 it in any way. Sometimes 

 it hangs down their backs ; 

 sometimes it is coiled about 

 their heads in simple fash- 

 ion. It may be fastened 

 up with strings of beads ; 

 iDUt the women, like the 

 men, usually have few if 

 any ornaments. Both are 

 inordinately fond of great 

 spiral coils of thick brass 

 wire, the men wearing them 

 on their legs, the women on 

 their arms. 



The Ifugao house is 

 small but well constructed. 

 It stands upon four or more 

 posts firmly imbedded in 

 the ground. The posts are 

 sometimes carved, and are 

 almost invariably provided 

 with projecting shoulders, 

 which prevent rats from 

 climbing into the houses. 

 The floor is usually of 

 boards, and the sides are of 

 boards or of bamboo basket- 

 work. The roof is well 

 and thickly thatched. The 

 average house has but one 

 small door and no windows. 

 Its interior is, of course, 

 necessarily dark, and is 

 made more so by the soot 

 from the pitch-pine fire, 

 which is usually kept burn- 

 ing on a rudely constructed 

 hearth. Door-posts and 

 even the under surfaces of 

 floor-boards are sometimes 

 ornamented with rude 

 wood carvings (see pages 

 884, 885). 



Each house has a store- 

 room and a living-room, the 

 former in the peak of the 

 roof above the latter. The 

 storeroom is reached by 

 means of a short ladder. 

 It serves as a depository 

 for rice, other foodstuft's, 



AN IP'UGAO WARRIOR 



These fighters carry beautifully fashioned and deadly steel- 

 headed lances. Note the battered but serviceable shield 



