IFUGAO TROPHIES 



A small but select collection of former enemies. Note the image which the Ifugao has 

 rudely carved as a decoration for his door (see page 889) 



ber some 76,000 souls. Like the Kalin- 

 gas and Ifiigaos, they have until recently 

 been inveterate head-hunters. Indeed, 

 they still take some human heads each 

 year, although the number is now very 

 small. They are physically a wonderfully 

 developed people, as tall as the Kalingas 

 and on the average more heavily built 

 than either the Kalingas or the Ifugaos. 



The men tattoo freely their chests and 

 arms, and often their faces and backs as 

 well. Formerly only those who had par- 

 ticipated in successful head hunts were 

 allowed to tattoo, but this rule is no 

 longer strictly adhered to. Their cloth- 

 ing is usually limited to small, dingy, un- 

 ornamented clouts, and sometimes even 

 to small aprons, although a good many 

 of them have cotton blankets, which they 

 use to protect themselves against wind 

 and rain. They wear few ornaments. 



Very many of them produce huge holes 

 in the lobes, of their ears, first cutting a 



small opening into which pieces of wood 

 the size of tooth-picks or matches are 

 forced, stretching it little by little until 

 it becomes an inch or more in diameter. 

 Ear plugs or other ornaments are placed 

 in the openings thus formed, which inci- 

 dentally serve as depositories for cigars 

 and other small objects. Indeed, I have 

 more than once seen a man roll up a pack 

 of playing cards and put it, for safe 

 keeping, in the hole in his ear ! 



The men are also particularly fond 

 of pearl-oyster shells ornamented with 

 scratch-work patterns. These they usu- 

 ally fasten at their waists. Brass to- 

 bacco pipes are often thrust into the hair, 

 which is "banged" on the forehead but 

 allowed to grow long behind, where it is. 

 usually confined in a jaimty cap beauti- 

 fully woven from scarlet, yellow, and 

 brown or black rattan. 



Dogs are a favorite article of food 

 with these people, and necklaces made of 



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