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tection from human enemies, and is only practicable 
among rude communities that live in isolated families 
or scattered local groups. The tree house is an old 
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Fig. 15. Tree House. Gaddang. | 
institution in the Philippines. It is still considerably 
used by the Gaddang and Kalinga in Luzon, by the 
Manobo and Mandaya of Mindanao, and even by some 
members of one Mohammedan group, the Moros of 
Lake Lanao, from whom comes the specimen exhibited 
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