NON-CHRISTIAN PEOPLES OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



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.with broad, spreading feet. Their hair 

 is perfectly straight. JMany of them have 

 large and beautiful eyes. As a rule the 

 men wear their hair short, although some 

 individuals, especially in Lepanto, allow 

 it to grow to a considerable length. 



The usual dress of the men is the clout, 

 supplemented, when the means of the 

 individual permit, with a cotton blanket. 

 They are, however, glad .to wear flannel 

 shirts and coats of khaki or blue army 

 cloth when obtainable. They also take 

 kindly to hats. Indeed, many of them 

 have hats of their own make. 



In view of the scanty costume of the 

 men, it is a surprising fact that the wo- 

 men are ordinarily careful to keep their 

 bodies fully covered, although when work- 

 ing about the house, weeding rice fields, 

 or washing clothes they frequently omit 

 upper garments. Wealthy women often 

 w^ear several superimposed skirts and 

 nearly all bind towels about their heads 

 (see page 1169). 



WHKRK SlIvKNCK IS RJ^AI^I^Y G0I.DI:N 



Neither sex has any very elaborate 

 ornaments. Some of the men adorn 

 themselves with large bands of beads or 

 wire and with ear ornaments of brass or 

 silver. They often tattoo the backs of 

 their hands. Some women have very 

 elaborately tattooed arms, but on the 

 whole tattooing is practiced much less 

 extensively than among the Ifugaos, the 

 Bontoc Igorots, or the Kalingas. The 

 women wear similar ear ornaments and 

 strings of beads as well. A few wealthy 

 individuals have ear ornaments of solid 

 gold. 



In Benguet a number of wealthy wo- 

 men possess beaten plates of thin gold, 

 which they wear between their lips and 

 front teeth on special occasions, thus 

 completely closing their mouths. Doubt- 

 less many American men would rejoice if 

 ornaments of this character were to be- 

 come fashionable in the United States. 

 When they are worn the male sex monop- 

 olizes the conversation ! 



These Igorots are supposedly monog- 

 amous, although the men sometimes 

 keep concubines, especially in Lepanto. 

 Parents are very fond of their children 

 and bring them up with care. The case 



of a boy prone to be untruthful is passed 

 upon by a committee of old men, and if 

 the verdict goes against him he is staked 

 out on the ground and flogged in a fash- 

 ion which he is not likely soon to forget. 



DOGS AS A table: DI;UCACY 



The people of this tribe are now peace- 

 ful, industrious agriculturists, and have 

 never been head-hunters. They live 

 chiefly on camotes, but raise some gabi 

 and considerable quantities of rice, much 

 of which is grown on terraces which 

 would seem wonderful were they not 

 dwarfed by the more marvelous ones of 

 the Ifugaos and the Bontoc Igorots. Irish 

 potatoes and coffee, introduced years ago 

 by the Spaniards, are raised for sale. 

 Pigs and chickens are kept in consider- 

 able numbers, but are as a rule eaten only 

 on ceremonial occasions. Dogs are a 

 highly, appreciated article of diet and 

 are now brought in large numbers to 

 Baguio from the lowlands for sale. On 

 Sunday mornings the Baguio dog-market 

 presents a unique spectacle (see page 

 1200). 



The Benguet Igorots raise good horses 

 in considerable numbers, and both men 

 and women ride with skill, differing ab- 

 solutely in this respect from the Ifugaos, 

 Bontoc Igorots, and Kalingas, who neither 

 keep horses nor know how to use them. 



Several different types of houses are 

 in common use. Of these the meanest 

 is built of grass and sits flat on the 

 ground. Such a house usually has a 

 raised platform of hewn boards on which 

 its occupants sleep. A more pretentious 

 but even less sanitary dwelling is that of 

 certain Lepanto Igorots, which is placed 

 on the ground, but has low board sides 

 and a high, peaked roof which contains 

 a storeroom. It is without windows. 

 The occupants have individual sleeping- 

 boards, which they lay on the damp 

 ground (see page 1174). 



In the vicinity of Kabayan the Benguet 

 Igorots build good houses, which have 

 floors and sides of boards and are even 

 possessed of windows, while near Baguio 

 and Cervantes a number of individuals 

 have constructed up-to-date dwellings 

 with galvanized iron roofs, furnished 

 with chairs, tables, beds, and American 



