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AN ILONGOT FAMILY 



Unlike the women who are rather partial to clothes, the Ilongot man seldom wears more than a loin cloth. He is a skilful 

 hunter depending on the chase for his supply of meat, and with bow and arrow tracks down deer and wild hogs ^hich are abundant. 

 Agriculture is left to the women who grow sweet potatoes, the principal article of food, a little rice, corn and bananas. The men 

 distil a kind of rum from the sugar cane and are very fond of intoxicating liquor. Each village is generally at war with the next and 

 fighting is conducted by ambush, never in the open. Poisoned arrows are used and they set spiked bamboos and spring guns for 

 their enemies in places which are likely to be crossed. 



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