Photograph by Charles Martin 



LOOK OUT, OR OFF GOES YOUR HEAD! 



This youthful headhunter of the Philippine Islands is a son of a chief of the warlike Uongote tribe, 

 and he lives in the mountains of northern Luzon. The greater part of his costume is worn upon his head, 

 and the little ornaments that look like trout flies are really tassels of white horsehair, highly prized 

 by these people. Indeed, strands of horsehair are often more desirable than money in these mountain 

 fastnesses, and burden carriers who have earned a dollar by swinging along difficult trails under a load of 

 eighty pounds for three days have been known to refuse coins in favor of horsehairs. 



