﻿ix. d, 6 Robertson: The Igorots of Lepanto 517 



we will have the right to complain of him to the tribunal or the justice 

 of the peace. 



STORY OF THE METHODS OK BUILDING THE HOUSES AND HOW WE WORK 

 ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOMS INHERITED FROM OUR FOREFATHERS 



When an Igorot wants to build a house, his neighbors are willing to 

 help him without pay; when the house is finished, the owner of the same 

 will not go to live in it without first performing a canao and after the 

 canao he will live in the house. 



We can't begin any work unless we kill a chicken, which is used as an 

 offering in order that we may do the work fortunately. 



MANCAYAN 10 ° 



From the document for the township of Mancayan, the follow- 

 ing excerpts are taken. The township contains three barrios; 

 namely, Aban, Suyoc, and Cabali. The stories of the formation 

 of the three settlements are similar. The customs of all three 

 are identical. For Aban and Suyoc, the narrative of the func- 

 tions of campo and medes and of the trial by ordeal, called 

 pudong, are given word for word the same. That for Cabali 

 is abbreviated. For all three, short accounts of Spanish and 

 American rule are given, but as they have no special bearing 

 on the main subject they are omitted here. The story of the 

 discovery of copper occurs in the narrative for Aban, and that 

 of gold in the narrative for Suyoc. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE PUEBLO OF ABAN (MANCAYAN ) IN TIME IMMEMORIAL 



The old men of the above town, by name Cacamo, Lasbaquen, Dagacen, 

 Mullones, and Bayed, and the old women, Bangayan and Guiling, state that 

 the persons Tibaldo and his wife Alummay, Magagneo and his wife Cupit, 

 Cumacom and his wife Gueyna, Lagdingan and his wife Budeas, Agaguen 

 and his wife Dapunay, Bilasi and his wife Tampacao, Disamoy and his wife 

 Tabollo, Tiab and his wife Bacluya, and others whose names we do not 

 remember, and who came from very distant rancherias, are the ones who 

 formed the pueblo of Aban in time immemorial. They divided Aban into 

 4 barrios, according to the centers of population, the names of which are 



100 For a description of Mancayan and Suyoc, see Perez, Igorrotes, 

 125-140. See also Eveland, Preliminary reconnaissance of the Mancayan- 

 Suyoc mineral region, Lepanto, P. I., Bull. P. I. Bur. Min. (1905), No. 4; 

 and Santos, Informe sobre las minas de cobre de las rancherias de Manca- 

 yan, Suyuk, Bumucun y Agbao. Manila (1862). The last-named treatise 

 is the first comprehensive geological report on the mining region of Lepanto. 

 See also Hernandez, Reconocimiento de un criadero de cobre en el Monte 

 Aban, termino de Mancayan (1850) ; von Drasche, Fragmente zu einer 

 Geologie der Insel Luzon. Wien (1878), 36-45; its translation into Spanish, 

 Datos para un estudio geologico de la isla de Luzon. Madrid (1881), 41-50; 

 Memoria . . . de la sociedad Cantabro-Filipina de Mancayan. Binondo 

 (1871). 



