﻿ix. d. 6 Robertson: The Igorots of Lepantn 509 



after this canao, 1 hog and 2 chickens are killed again; four months after 

 this, they kill 3 hogs and 2 chickens; they wait four months more and then 

 kill 1 hog and 2 chickens more. After all these ceremonies are over the 

 parents and relatives can depart, but if they should live in another town 

 and there is a river to cross they cannot cross for a year. :v 



Customs in the building of a house. — When a man has started to 

 chop timbers to build a house for himself, he cannot go to another place 

 or town until the house is completed. When he builds his house, even 

 though it is raised already, and he digs up a toad, rat, snake, or other 

 animal, the house is moved to another place. Also, should it rain or 

 should a rainbow appear in the sky, while the house is under construction, 

 or a crow or a hawk fly over it, the house is moved to a different place. 



The foregoing is a description of our customs that we have inherited 

 from our forefathers. 



CAYAN 80 



The barrios of the township of Cayan are Cayan, Tadian,- 

 Balaoa, Lubon, Masla, Sumadel, and Tue. "In 1844, owing to 

 the great many dangers that threatened this town, arising from 

 the hostilities of neighboring towns, from the stealing of their 

 cattle, hogs, chickens, etc., and from being compelled to pay 

 tribute to other towns, the people decided to go to Bucay, the 

 former capital of Abra, and request the authorities there that 

 a Spanish official be sent to their town." Thereupon Spanish- 

 appointed officials were established in Cayan, which became the 



" Of mortuary customs among the Igorots, Quirante [Blair and Robert- 

 son, ut supra, 20, 274, 275 (1624)] says: "When one of those barbarians 

 dies, they do not bury him for many days, for, as they say, they pass one 

 month, during which period they amass quantities of food about the 

 deceased, to whom they give his share as well as the others. Then they 

 continue to prick the body, and, as they say, they draw off or suck out 

 the humors until the body is left dry. When that time comes they wrap 

 it in their blankets, and fasten buyos (betel) and other things about the waist 

 for the journey. Some are buried in a sitting posture and placed with 

 their backs against their shields, in caves under the rocks, the mouths of 

 which are stopped with stones. Others they set in the trees, and they carry 

 food for so many days after having left them in either one of those 

 places." Compare other mortuary customs of Philippine peoples in Blair 

 and Robertson, ut supra: 5, 129-141 (Loarca, Relation, ca., 1580) ; 7, 

 194-196 (Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs, 1589); 16, 133 (Morga, 

 Sucesos, 1609) ; 40, 79-82 (Colin, Labor evangelica, 1663) ; 40, 165, 166 

 (Combes, Historia, 1667); 40, 337-339 (San Antonio, Chronicas, 1738-44). 

 Compare also the ceremony among the Ifugaos described by Beyer and 

 Barton, This Journal, Sec. D (1911), 6, 227-249; among the Bontocs in 

 Jenks, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1, 74-80. See also Worcester, 

 This Journal (1906), 1, 850; Perez, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1904), 1, 

 201; and the manuscript Memoria aprocsimada, op. cit. 



80 For a description and partial history of Cayan, see Perez, Igorrotes, 

 153-162. It is located 9 kilometers from Cei-vantes. 



