﻿494 T]ie Philippine Journal of Science 1914 



At night time, young men go to the house where the young women 

 are sleeping; if a young man that has been sleeping for some time in 

 the at-ato wants to get married he tells it to the young woman whom 

 he likes; the young woman, if she likes the young man, tells him to 

 go to find firewood which will be taken to the house of the woman's 

 father; the young woman goes to the house of the young man's father 

 and brings him camote or rice as a sign to the parents that their son 

 and daughter want to get married. After these ceremonies the parents 

 of the young man and woman make an agreement that the young man 

 shall go to the house of the woman's father and perform a cafiao with 

 a chicken. Three days after the performance of this cafiao, they perform 

 another cafiao with a suckling pig. When they have been living together 

 for one year, they get 3 or 4 hogs and with these hogs they again 

 kill a suckling pig which shows that that day the last cafiao has been 

 performed. 



THE IGOROT CUSTOMS 



The ancient people used the bark of trees for G strings and their 

 hats were made of fine splints of bamboo; the women made their tapis 

 out of the fibers procured from certain kinds of trees. 



When a man has a complaint to make he gathers all the old men 

 together and tells them his complaint. The old men, after they have 

 heard the complaint of the plaintiff, call the defendant or accused and 

 let them speak face to face and listen to the matter. After the old 

 men have heard the cause of the dispute of the two fellows and they 

 have no witnesses, they let them prick each one's head with a needle; 

 the one whose head bleeds will lose and he whose head does not bleed 

 will win; or they let them throw a stone at each other and the one 

 who hits the backbone is the winner; if the old men don't want to try the 

 case in [one of] these manners, they get 2 chickens from one hen and 

 give one to the plaintiff and the other to the defendant; each one then 

 burns his chicken and cuts it in two before the old men. The owner 

 of the chicken whose gall is the larger loses and the one whose chicken 

 has the small gall wins. 04 



At the beginning of planting rice in the seed beds, all the people 

 perform a cafiao with a hen or rooster; before the transplanting of the 

 rice plants in the field, they perform another cafiao with a chicken, 

 and after the performance of this cafiao they must transplant all their 

 rice plants to their rice fields. After the transplanting, they again 

 celebrate a cafiao with a chicken, which shows that they have finished 

 rice planting. 



Before the beginning of the rice harvest every one is prohibited from 

 leaving his town or his house, because all the people must perform a 

 cafiao within ten days. The ceremony they make in this cafiao is the 



" Cf. trial by ordeal among Filipino peoples as related by various 

 authors in Blair and Robertson, ut supra: 16, 129 (Morga, Sucesos, 1609); 

 40, 85, 86 (Colin, Labor evangelica, 1663) ; 40, 152-154 (Combes, Historia, 

 1667); 40, 343, 357 (San Antonio, Chronicas, 1788-44); 43, 109 (Ortiz, 

 Practico del ministerio, ca., 1742) ; 43, 123 (Martinez de Zuiiiga, Historia, 

 1804). See also, Lillo de Gracia, Distrito de Lepanto, 20; and Jenks. 

 Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Sun: (1905), 1, 168-171. 



