290 NOTES ON SOME PRIMITIVE PHILIPPINE TRIBES 



which they build sleeping platforms of small poles. Such struct- 

 ures are usually planned so that each accommodates but a single 

 person, but they may be large enough for an entire family. 



During the rainy season more elaborate, or at least larger, 

 structures are erected, in which several families not infrequently 

 find shelter; but even these more pretentious dwellings are, in 

 the case of the lowland Mangy ans, usually left without sides. 

 The more thrifty mountaineers, however, build tiny huts which 

 are both roofed and sided with palm or rattan leaves, and are 



UNMARRIED MANGYAN GIRLS, SHOWING TYPICAL COSTUME— MT HALCON, MINDORO 



provided with a single opening which serves the triple purpose 

 of door, window, and chimne}'. 



The cooking, which is of the most primitive sort, is done over 

 an open fire built on a pile of earth in one corner of the hut. 

 Fire is obtained by striking flint with a bit of steel or iron and 

 catching the sparks on a bunch of dry plant hairs. When the 

 necessary materials cannot be had for obtaining fire in this way, 

 the rubbing together of two ingeniously shaped pieces of dry 

 bamboo speedily accomplishes the desired end. 



As a rule, Mangy ans live on the forest products which they 



