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AN Il'UGAO ANITO IMAGE AROUND WHICH DANCES ARE HELD 

 The carving- is quite crude, but they arc very particular about the head dress 



food is prepared and in the other it is 

 cooked. To the right there is a bench 

 for the accommodation of the family. 

 when they wish to sit rather than squat, 

 and extending across the end opposite 

 the entrance there is a boxhke structure 

 perliaps 2^ or 3 feet high and 3 feet 

 wide. This is the sleeping-box, to which 

 access is had by means of a low door. 

 At one end of it there are usually loose 

 boards on the ground. 



Father, mother, and children crawl 

 into this suffocating place at night, and, 

 after building a fire on the dirt at the 

 further end of the box, sleep on the 

 f)oards, or attempt to do so. It is hardly 

 to be wondered at that eye diseases are 

 very prevalent among the Bontoc Igorots. 



Their houses are grouped in large 

 villages, and their occupants depend for 

 protection upon their large forces of 

 fighting men rather than upon inaccessi- 

 bility. " 



DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



The Bontoc Igorots are naturally a 

 dirty people. Both their persons and 

 their houses are usually filthy. They 

 keep dogs, hogs, and chickens. The hogs 

 are provided with pens consisting of de- 

 pressions in the ground walled up with 

 stone. Connected with these there are 

 good houses, which afford the swine 

 excellent protection against inclement 

 weather. Pork is eaten only on cere- 

 monial occasions, and hogs are carefully 



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