AN IFUGAO WOMAN MAKING CLOTH 



The Ifugao men carve wood with some skill and weave serviceable wicker baskets. The 



women make cloth as shown above 



time jeering at it as if it were capable of 

 hearing and understanding them. Danc- 

 ing and feasting may last for days. 



Ultimately the skull, which has not 

 been mutilated in any way, is boiled and 

 thoroughly cleaned. The lower jaw is 

 fastened in place with rattan and the 

 trophy is taken home by the man who 

 won it. It serves him as a household 

 ornament. It may be placed with other 

 skulls on a board shelf beside the door 

 of his house ; it may find a resting place 

 within, over the fireplace : it may be 

 placed outside at one corner with the 

 skulls of carabaos and pigs which have 

 been eaten at feasts. 



I have seen a house with a tasteful 

 ornamental frieze of alternating carabao 

 skulls and human skulls extending 

 around it at the height of the floor ! I 



have seen others with great open-work 

 baskets of skulls hanging under the 

 eaves. 



the; one famh^y disgrace 



A man who loses his head is con- 

 sidered to have treated his family and 

 friends somewhat shabbily. He is not 

 buried as an ordinary person would be, 

 but is carried to a resting place on some 

 hillside far from his native village. A 

 tunnel is excavated in the earth, his body 

 is carried into it and placed in a sitting 

 position, and the tunnel is then filled. A 

 lance is thrust into the ground over the 

 grave to show that he was killed in war, 

 and an anito image, rudely fashioned out 

 of grass, may be left to watch over his 

 last resting place. 



I once attended the funeral of an 



