ing. The duration of the celebra- 

 tion depends on the weaUh of those 

 who give it. These people believe 

 that the anito, or spirit, of a person 

 who has lost his head can make 

 trouble for those who killed him, 

 but that such a spirit profits by the 

 food and drink consumed by the 

 living at the feast given in honor 

 of the taking of the head ; so there 

 is a double reason for making head- 

 taking feasts as elaborate and as 

 long as possible. 



care; of heads 



After the feasting is over the 

 heads are taken down and boiled 

 and the skulls thoroughly cleaned. 

 The lower jaws are used for gansa 

 handles and the skulls are buried 

 in the earth in the secret rooms 

 above referred to. At the expira- 

 tion of a year they are dug up with 

 appropriate ceremonies, and are 

 then hung in baskets from the 

 ridge-poles of these chambers. 



As with the Ifugaos, a man who 

 loses his head is considered to have 

 brought discredit on his town. He 

 is sometimes buried under a trail, 

 so that his neighbors may walk over 

 him ! Participants in successful 

 head-hunting raids are allowed to 

 tattoo their bodies and more espe- 

 cially their faces. 



A man or boy who has taken a 

 head finds it comparatively easy to 

 get an acceptable wife, and the in- 

 fluence of women is one of the 

 potent factors which has rendered 

 difficult the complete suppression of 

 head-hunting among these people. 



the; wild tingians of apayao 



Many of the Tingians of north- 

 ern Luzon, although they are non- 

 Christians and cling tenaciously to 

 their ancient religious beliefs, are 

 in other respects quite as highly 

 civilized as their Christian Filipino 

 neighbors. 



Representatives of this tribe are 

 found in North and South Ilocos, 

 and even in Lepanto and Nueva 

 Ecija, but the Tingian strongholds 

 are the subprovinces of Abra and 

 Apayao. 



agpad, a bontoc igorot warrior 



This man has saved two Americans from drowning. 

 He was formerly a famous head-hunter 



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