﻿i\. o, 6 Robertson: The Igorots of Lepanto 477 



and bay-an; and if it is a girl her clothing must be lamma, bacguet, and 

 lanlan; the ceremony to be made for the dead is the killing of 10 hogs 

 and 15 chickens; we inherited these customs from our grandfathers and 

 fathers." (Plate III.) 



The second custom that we inherited is that we must perform a general 

 canao called begnas in the abong" (tribunal) just after planting and 

 harvesting of the rice crop ;" if there are some to be married, they celebrate 

 the wedding just after this canao; the ceremony observed for begnas is 

 the killing of a dog, 2 hogs, and 3 chickens, and in the afternoon of the 

 same day we string the meat not eaten on fine split bamboos, also the 

 chicken and dog; there are as many of them as the number of houses in 

 our settlement; on the third day we again take a hog to be killed to the 

 same abong, and all the people in that settlement must be gathered together, 

 and the meat must be divided among them to be distributed to our houses 

 for the performance of a canao for the hog or chicken; not one of us is 

 allowed to go to the country to work during seven days, and no one can 

 come into our town not even anyone who has some letters to bring us unless 

 we let him come in; we inherited this custom from our fathers and they 



H The abongos is a headband or turban. The bayaong is a woman's 

 striped skirt, ornamented with conventional designs, and made only in 

 Lepanto. — Beyer. 



Jenks [Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1, 79, 80] describes the clothing 

 of the Bontocs as follows: "The burial clothes of a married man are the 

 los-adan, or blue anito-figured burial robe, and a breechcloth of beaten bark, 

 called 'chi-nang-ta.' In the coffin are placed a fa-a, or blue cotton breech- 

 cloth made in Titipan, the fan-cha-la, a striped blue-and-white cotton 

 blanket, and the to-chong, a foot-square piece of beaten bark or white cloth 

 which is laid on the head. A married woman is buried in a kay-in, a 

 particular skirt made for burial in Titipan, and a blue-bordered waist or 

 la-ma. In the coffin are placed a burial girdle, wa-kis, also made in Titi- 

 pan, a blue-and-white-striped blanket called bay-a-ong, and the to-chong, 

 the small cloth or bark over the hair. * * * With the men are buried, 

 besides the things interred with the married men, the basket-work hat, 

 the basket-work sleeping hat, the spear, the battle-ax, and the earrings if 

 any are possessed. * * * In addition to the various things buried with 

 the married woman, the unmarried has a sleeping hat. Babes and children 

 up to 6 or 7 years of age are buried in the sementera [that is, field] wrapped 

 in a crude beaten-bark mantle. This garment is folded and wrapped about 

 the body, and for babes, at least, is bound and tied close about them." See 

 also Jenks, A. Anthrop. (1904), n. s., 6, No. 5; Perez, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. 

 Surv. (1904), 3, 237; and Lillo de Gracia, Distrito de Lepanto, 30. 



" Abong, or abung, is the universal name throughout northern Luzon for 

 a long, low dwelling house, built either directly on the ground or at a slight 

 elevation above it. — Beyer. 



"See Barton, This Journal, Sec. D (1911), 6, 81-103; and Jenks, Pub. 

 P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1, 103-105. Superstitions in regard to planting 

 and harvesting are very common in the Philippines. Miss Emma Yule, a 

 teacher in the Manila High School, has gathered together from her students 

 many of the common superstitions regarding the planting, care, and har- 

 vesting of rice. This is entitled, Some superstitions and customs of the 

 Filipino farmer, and is soon to be published. 



