236 CHRISTIE. 



of statues and other objects for devotional use. He used no mod- 

 els and made no drawings. The pieces of wood are marked 

 with a pencil for sawing and chipping. After the image is 

 roughly in shape, he trusts entirely to his eyes for guidance. 

 He stated that glass eyes for statues were obtainable in Vigan; 

 he, if I understood him aright, can make eyes out of glass. In 

 his shop were a number of what resembled large wooden dolls 

 without arms, which could be made into statues of various saints 

 by additional touches and by affixing arms in various attitudes. 

 The statue .in the illustration was made partly hollow to lessen 

 the weight. 



Most of the San Vicente work in wooden statuary is crude. 

 The head, arms, and trunk in a large statue are usually made 

 of separate pieces of wood. I saw one statue of Christ, alleged 

 to have been made in San Vicente, the hair of which, I was in- 

 formed, was made of dyed maguey fiber, the eyelashes of cat fur, 

 and the eyes of glass, while the representation of the crown of 

 thorns seemed to me to be made of tin. The statue was thickly 

 painted, splashes of red representing the blood. 



CHAIRS AND OTHER FURNITURE. 



San Vicente contains men capable of acceptable work in carving 

 doors (Plate H, fig. 1) and other fittings for a house. There are 

 also men who make carved wardrobes and beds to order. But 

 the principal articles of wood made at San Vicente are chairs. 

 About 5,000 pesos worth of these are sold by San Vicente workers 

 annually. Sales of beds, tables, and wardrobes together amount 

 to only about 1,000 pesos. 



Chair making is carried on at the houses of the people, but it 

 is common to hire a few outsiders to assist in the work. . The 

 largest number that I saw employed at any one place was ten. 

 The work is somewhat specialized, but there is as j'et no division 

 of labor. There are men, for example, who make and put to- 

 gether all parts of a chair; there are more who do only certain 

 parts of the work. The splitting of the rattan for the seats 

 is usually intrusted to some one man of special skill at that 

 kind of work, who is not expected to do anything else. He 

 is paid 50 centavos a day, while planers and sawyers get only 

 2 pesos per week of six working days. The weaving of the 

 rattan in the seats is usually done by women and children, who 

 for their work on ordinary chairs receive 4 or 5 centavos per 

 chair. They average 5 chairs a day. The man who puts the 



