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IFUGAO GIRLS ASSISTING EACH OTHER IN TOILET 



The women allow their hair to grow long, generally wearing it hanging down their backs 



(see page 88i) 



ing, but creep along the ground, and in 

 this position execute a sort of lockstep. 

 "beating upon their shields with billets of 

 wood and bending in perfect unison far 

 to the right and then far to the left. 

 Some of the men make threatening mo- 

 tions with their lances. It is impossible 

 for me to describe the weird effect pro- 

 duced, but I hope yet to be able to use a 

 moving-picture camera on a file of men 



engaging in this strange ceremonial, 

 which they will doubtless soon forget, 

 as bead-hunting has now practically 

 ceased among them. 



When the dancing ground is reached 

 the head is impaled upon a short stake 

 and the warriors circle around it in the 

 characteristic war dance of this tribe. 

 Some of them take off their ornaments 

 and hang them on the head, at the same 



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