﻿ix. D, 6 Robertson: The Igorots of Lepanto 495 



killing of a hog or a chicken; ten days after this canao an old man of 

 the township goes and kills a hog or a suckling pig near the foot of a 

 large tree, and after this they may harvest the rice; after harvesting 

 all their rice the people perform a canao as a sign that they have 

 finished the harvest. The ceremony they make in this canao is the 

 killing of a chicken. 



After the planting of camotes, the men with spears and shields go to 

 the mountain to pray to the souls of the dead persons and when they 

 have returned home they all go to the tribunal or abong; the head or 

 chief of the tribunal takes a cup of water and a spear and puts them 

 in front of the tribunal and prays. 



The next morning he gets a dog or a chicken which they kill and cook 

 and place in a dish and set it in a certain place; this is the food for 

 the dead that they called to when they went to the mountain. 



When a certain kind of canao is being performed, all the roads or 

 streets or paths leading into the township are closed in order that the 

 people from other towns may not come into their town. 



The man who begins to build a house and sees a mouse does not 

 continue it, for he thinks that it is very bad luck. After the materials 

 for a house are collected and the house is built, if the owner of the 

 house sees a snake or a mouse before he has occupied the house, he 

 removes his house to another place. After the erection of the house 

 when it is removed, if the owner does not see a dog, a crow, or a snake, 

 he performs a canao with a chicken; three days after this canao, he 

 again performs a canao by killing a suckling pig; after all these things 

 are done, if the owner does not dream any superstitious beliefs regarding 

 his house, he moves into it and does not leave it for three days; he again 

 performs a canao with the ceremony of killing a chicken; but when he 

 dreams something bad he will leave the house and find another place 

 where he may build his house. 



Igorot names for the months of the year. 



Libtong, January. Hoa-6, July. 



Atong, February. Leppas, August. 



Panlitonan, March. Tioay, September. 



Becas, April. Tiguey, October. 



Deam, May. Quiling, November. 



Adug, June. Esec, December. 



Each month of the year is named or called by the Igorots according to 

 the climate, weather, or season of that month, also by the birds and the 

 things they did during that time." 



63 This is a very common practice in all parts of the world. A manu- 

 script history of the Visayas in the possession of the Philippine Library 

 gives such a calendar that purports to have been handed down from as early 

 as 1543. Mr. H. Otley Beyer, of the Bureau of Science, and Mr. Luther 

 Parker, of the Bureau of Education in Manila, have both gathered impor- 

 tant data of early calendar systems in the Orient, which it is hoped will 

 soon be published. Quirante says (Blair and Robertson, ut supra, 20, 

 274) that the Igorots do not "know what day, month, or year, or the 

 increase and decline of the moon, signify. They govern themselves by one 



