Vol. XXIV, No. 1 1 



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November, 1913 



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THE NON-CHRISTIAN PEOPLES OF THE 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



With an Account of What Has Been Done for Them under 



American Rule 



By Dean C. Worcester 



Se:cre:tary o]p THK Interior of the: Philippine Islands, 1901-1913 



Author of ''field Sports Among the Wild Men of Lui^on," with 54 illustra- 

 tions, published in the March, ipii, number; ''Taal Volcano and Its Recent 

 Destructive Eruption," with 45 illustrations, published in the April, i()i2, number, 

 and ''Heed-hunters of Northern Liizon,'' with loj illustrations, published in the 

 September, 1^12, number of the National Geographic Magazine. 



THE non-Christian peoples of the 

 Phihppine Islands constitute ap- 

 proximately an eighth of the en- 

 tire population of the islands. The terri- 

 tory which they occupy or control com- 

 prises an immense region in northern 

 Luzon, "^ all but a narrow coastal strip in 

 Mindoro, all but a few small isolated 

 regions along the coast in the great island 

 of Palawan, the whole interior and a con- 

 siderable part of the coast region of Min- 

 danao, extensive areas in southern Luzon 

 and in Negros and Panay, as well as the 

 islands of Basilan, Jolo, Siassi, Tawi 

 Tawi, Balabac, Cagayan de Jolo, and the 

 very numerous adjacent small islands. It 

 is not too much to say that at the present 

 time approximately half of the territory 

 of the Philippine Islands is inhabited by 

 them, so far as it is inhabited at all. 



* There are probably no regions in the world 

 where within similar areas there dwell so large 

 a number of distinct peoples as are to be found 

 in northern Luzon and in the interior of Mm- 

 danao. 



I desire to bring home to the readers 

 of the National Geographic Magazine 

 some of the more essential facts as to 

 the division of the non-Christian inhabit- 

 ants of the Philippines into really dis- 

 tinct peoples, and to this end I shall sum- 

 marize briefly some of the important 

 known characteristics of each, illustrating 

 my statements, when practicable, with re- 

 productions of photographs taken either 

 by the government photographer, Mr. 

 Charles Martin, or by myself. Typical 

 individuals, houses, settlements, and 

 scenes are shown, so that the reader ob- 

 tains at a glance facts which it would be 

 impossible to state in words within the 

 limits of any publication smaller than a 

 bulkv monograoh. In order to facilitate 

 reference, I shall take up the several 

 tribes in alphabetic order. In the latter 

 part of this article, pages 1240 to 1256, 

 an account is given of what has been 

 done for these peoples under American 

 rule. 



