﻿i.\. n. 6 Robertson: The Igorota of Lepanto 525 



MATERIAL OUT OF WHICH CLOTHES WERE MADE 



The ancient people used G strings made out of pounded tree bark and 

 basket-shaped hats woven out of bical (a wild bamboo). The pingad worn 

 by the women was also made out of tree bark, pounded, finely twisted, 

 and then woven into a cloth. (The pingad is a narrow blanket about 2 

 feet wide and long enough to reach around a woman's waist.)" 1 



MANNER OF SETTLING COMPLAINTS 



When a person has a complaint to make against anyone, all the old 

 men of the community are called together, and the complainant states the 

 nature of his complaint to them. They then send after the accused, and 

 upon his arrival the complainant is asked to state his complaint before 

 the accused; the accused then is allowed to make his statement; if neither 

 party has any witnesses, the old men stick a fine needle in the top of 

 their heads (complainant and accused) and he that bleeds loses the case. 

 Another way: They make the complainant and the accused throw stones 

 at each other and he that is not hit wins the case. Another way: They" 

 give to the complainant and to the accused [each] a small chicken, hatched 

 by the same hen. Each one roasts his chicken before an open fire, without 

 cleaning it, or taking the feathers off. When they are roasted they are 

 cut into before the old men and he, the gall of whose chicken is the 

 smallest, loses the case. 1 " 



CANAO FOR PLANTING AND HARVESTING 



At the time for planting rice in seed beds, all the people in the community 

 have a common canao for which everybody kills a chicken. Before they 

 begin to transplant their rice, they have the same kind of a canao; also, 

 when the planting is over. For ten days before the rice cutting commences, 

 nobody is allowed to leave the town; during this time they have a canao 

 for which they kill hogs and chickens; after the ten days' canao is over, one 

 of the old men goes under a big tree (the sacred tree of the community) 

 and there he sacrifices a chicken and offers up a prayer, and after this 

 ceremony the rice cutting begins. After the rice is all cut, another canao 

 is held. 1 " 



After camote planting is over, every man in the community goes, with 

 his spear and shield, to the mountains, and there calls in a loud and sup- 

 pliant voice for the souls of the dead to come in. Upon their return to 

 the town they go directly to their tribunals. Then an old man from each 

 tribunal goes to get water and a spear and places them, while offering up 

 a prayer, in front of his tribunal. The next day they kill a dog and place 

 it in front of the tribunal and there they leave it as food for the spirits 

 they have thus summoned. 



When a canao is about to commence all the paths and streets leading 

 into the town are closed with brush and thorns in order that no one from 

 another town may enter. 



111 See footnotes 26 and 49; and cf. Jenks, Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 

 1, 111-114. 



m The first of the ordeals mentioned above is similar to the ordeal by 

 pudong, described on page 518. Compare also page 512. See Jenks 

 [Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1, 169] for a description of the pudong. 



"' See footnote 28. 



