THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



A. General Science 



Vol. it JULY, 1909 No. 4 



THE IFUGAOS OF QUIANGAN AND VICINITY. 



By Fr. JuAx Villavebde. • 



(Translated, Edited and Illustrated by Dean C. Worcester. With Votes and an 

 Addendum by L. E. Case.) 



The Spanish missionary priests who played such an imjjortant part 

 in the civilizing of the wild tribes of the Philippines had a wonderfully 

 favorable opportunity for ethnological work. It is greatly to be regretted 

 that most of them did not deem their observations relative to the manner 

 of life of these peoples to be of sufficient importance to be recorded and 

 perpetuated, but, as a matter of fact, they did not. 



However, every rule has its exceptions. Fr. Juan Villa verde was born 

 in the Spanish Province of Navarra on June 23, 1841, was sent as a 

 missionary among the Ifugaos on February 3, 1868, and remained in or 

 near the Ifugao country until the early part of 1897, when he contracted 

 the illness which resulted in his death on July 8 of the same year. 

 He has written a very interesting and valuable account of the Ifugaos 

 of which a translation follows. 



In referring to these people, Fr. Villaverde almost invariably employs 

 the word "Igorrotes." x\s this is the name applied generally to the 

 hill people of northern Luzon Ijy Spanish writers, I have invariably 

 substituted for it the word "Ifugaos" now ordinarily employed to des- 

 ignate the "Igorrotes" of this particular region. 



Fr. Villaverde's account of the Ifugaos forms a part of his "Informe 

 iSobre la Redncdon de los Infirles de Luzon," written in response to a 

 request for information as to practical means for subjecting the non- 

 Christian tribes of northern Luzon and organizing them into Christian 

 towns, sent out by the Superior Government of the Philippine Islands. 

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