40 THE EARLY MALAYS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS 



intrusive, Malayan race, who, by preference or by press of foes 

 behind them, scaled the high mountains and on their bleak and 

 cold summits and canyon slopes laboriously built themselves 

 rock-walled fields and homes, in which they have long been 

 acclimated. The culture of the Igorot," he adds, "has been 

 greatly modified and advanced by the rigors of his habitat, but 

 it is Malayan at base, as are the languages which he speaks." 26 



The Negrito infusion seems to have advanced even farther 



in the case of another interesting tribe of the same general 



region — the Ilongots or Ibilaos. Dr. Barrows has pursued 



his investigations among these as well and has given us the 



benefit thereof in two suggestive monographs. 27 



"In these peoples we have, I am quite sure," he says, "a 

 mixture of primitive Malayan and Negrito, with more Negrito 

 than in the case of the Igorot. Stature, curly hair, short head, 

 and broad, flat nose — these are all negritic characters, as is also 

 the hairiness of the face and body. In fact there can be no 

 doubt of the presence of Negrito blood in the Ilongot, for the 

 process of assimilation can be seen going on. The Negrito of a 

 comparatively pure type is a neighbor of the Ilongot on both the 

 south and the north. Usually they are at enmity, but this does 

 not, and certainly has not in the past, prevented commingling. 

 The culture of the Ilongot is intermediate, or a composite of 

 Malayan and Negrito elements. He uses the bow and arrow of 

 the Negrito and the spear of the Malayan as well. There are 

 few things in the ethnography of the Ilongot that seem unusual 

 and for which the culture of neither Malay nor Negrito does not 

 provide an explanation." 2S 



Here then we have revealed before our eyes what is 

 probably the closing chapter in the silent though pregnant 

 process, now centuries old, of blending two distinct and even 

 hostile races and eliminating the weaker through absorption 

 by the stronger. Truly this is a rare opportunity for the 



26 The Negrito and Allied Types American Anthropologist (N. S.) 

 XII, 372. 



27 The Ilongot or Ibilaw of Luzon, Popular Science Monthly, 

 LXXVII, 36 (1910) ; The Negrito in the Philippines, American Anthro- 

 poligist (N. S.) XII, 358 et seq. (1910). 



Besides these contributions of Dr. Barrows the following have been 

 written on the Ilongots : 



Blumentritt (Ferdinand) Gaddanen, Ilongoten Ibilaos und 

 Negritos (Wien, 1884). 



Katechismus der hatholischen Glauhenslehre in der Ilongoten 

 Sprache (translated from the Spanish of Padre Fray Francisco 

 de la Zarza (Wien, 1893). 



■Cam/pa (Buen ventura) Una Visita a los Bancherias de 

 Ilongotes, El Correo Sino-Annamita, Vol. 25, pp. 561-646 

 (Manila, 1891). 



Scheerer (Otto) On a Quinary Notation Among the Ilongots ; 

 reprinted from the Philippine Journal of Science (Manila, 1911). 



Jones (William) Letters, reports, etc., re Italon Ilongots, in 

 Rideout (Manila, 1912). 



28 American Anthropologist (N. S.) XII, 375. 



