﻿THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



D. General Biology, Ethnology, 

 and Anthropology 



Vol. IX NOVEMBER, 1914 No. 6 



THE IGOROTS OF LEPANTO 



Compiled and edited by James A. Robertson 



(Librarian, Philippine Library, Manila, P. I.) 



Nine plates and 1 text figure 



INTRODUCTION 



In order that local historical data regarding the Philippine 

 Islands, which exist only in scattered manuscripts or in oral 

 tradition, might be preserved, the Governor-General of the Phil- 

 ippines, under date of January 26, 1911, directed each provincial 

 governor to "issue instructions to each municipal presidente 

 to call together the old men in each and every barrio, sitio, or 

 arrabal in his municipality 1 and obtain from them and from 

 any documents in their possession the entire history of such 

 community, in so far as may be possible." Each report was 

 to embody, among other things, the present official name of the 



1 In Spanish times, each province was divided into units termed pueblos. 

 The present units of the provinces are called municipalities or townships — 

 the latter name being used in Mountain Province. Each of these divisions 

 is presided over by an official known as the president or presidente. He 

 is assisted by a vice-president or vice-presidente, by a secretary and treas- 

 urer or secretary-treasurer, and by a body of councilors or concejales. 

 Each municipality or township consists of a number of small communities, 

 known as barrios. The barrio may be likened somewhat to the ward of 

 a city, except that many barrios are compact communities distantly sepa- 

 rated from the rest of the larger unit. The chief official of the barrio is 

 termed lieutenant or teniente. Many barrios are in turn divided into small 

 districts called sitios, although this term has no legal significance. Arrabal 

 is a term used to designate the suburbs of a large town. It is used at 

 times in the Philippines to denote a section of the municipality, and is 

 itself divided into barrios. The terms comandancia and distrito relate to 

 military not civil government. See Census of the Philippine Islands. 

 Washington (1905), 1, 57-59. 



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