[9] BULLETIN 39, UiSTITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



to such specimens. The Mala}" race are skillful metallurg'ists in their 

 way, practicing- some of the ver}'^ oldest methods in their craft. 



14. Woodcraft. — The working of wood is essentially the occupa- 

 tion of men. It embraces the cutting down of the tree or shrub, that 

 is, the harvesting- of the material and treatment for seasoning, straight- 

 ening, etc. ; after that comes working it up for a thousand uses in 

 canoe building, cabinet work, carving- of weapons and ornaments. 

 Woodworkers' tools of all classes and of the simplest forms may be 

 found among- the ruder tribes in the Philippines. 



J 5. Textile Industries. — To this class belong- all -svorks in liber and 

 all interlacing of material from the coarsest hedge to the finest pifia 

 embroidery, including bark cloth, fiber, string, sennit, rope, matting, 

 basketry, cloth woven in frames, knots, lace, and needlework. It is 

 important to know the native name, the common name, and the scien- 

 tific name of every plant and apparatus. While any example would 

 be valuable in a museum, there is scarcely another art which lends 

 itself so handil}" to exhibiting all its materials, apparatus, processes, 

 and products. There are some of these processes in which the Fili- 

 pinos excel. 



16. Agriculture. — The domestication, cultivation, training, har- 

 vesting, storing, and marketing of plants all belong- under the general 

 head of agriculture, beginning with those primitive processes by 

 which native plants are somewhat protected, and including also horti- 

 culture, floriculture, and arboriculture. Models of larger objects will 

 often suflice, while the camera will be of excellent service in this art. 



IT. Milling Arts. — Inchiding all processes which take the grain 

 and other ripened portions of the plants from the gleaner's hands and 

 prepare them for the cook. Here belong mortars, hand mills, taro 

 graters, grinding- devices of every sort, mills run b}^ beast or water 

 power for rice and other plants, especiall}^ the machinery involved; 

 sifters, packing, and receptacles. 



18. Hunting. — In continental areas this forms an immense class 

 of industrial objects, and even in the Philippines hunting vermin and 

 larger animals has developed ingenuity especially in traps, a full set 

 of which is desired. The Negritos use bows and arrows of excellent 

 quality, of their own manufacture, and ingenious harpoon arrows 

 procured in trade. (A. B. Meyer, Die Negritos, IX, folio publica- 

 tions of the Koyal Dresden Museum, Dresden, 1893, Stengel.) 



19. Fishing. — The inventions inchided in this class are for seizing, 

 killing, and trapping aquatic animals of all species. No other series 

 would be more attractive and instructive than a collection of speci- 

 mens and models of clubs, knives, piercing- devices, nets, traps, weirs, 

 pounds, boats, costumes, etc., illustrating the pursuit of animals in the 

 fresh and salt waters of the Philippine Archipelago. 



