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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



LEPANTO IGOROTS AT CERVANTES 



They are dancing around unopened jars of tapuy to propitiate the "anitos," or spirits of 

 the dead, and make it certain that the drink will have a proper effect on those who partake 

 of it. The spectators are Filipinos. 



gatherings. Indeed, an absolutely essen- 

 tial feature of the arrival of a deputation 

 of Ifugaos is that the headmen should 

 offer bubud to the American officials. A 

 refusal to taste it would be interpreted 

 as an act of hostility, and would throw 

 cold water on all subsequent proceedings. 



KEEPING THE HEAD-HUNTERS IN GOOD 

 HUMOR 



Apart from the all-important question 

 of providing proper food and drink, it is 

 highly essential that from the time the 

 first delegations begin to arrive until the 

 last have departed the crowd should be 



kept occupied and entertained in order 

 that there may be no opportunity for ill- 

 disposed persons to stir up mischief. To 

 this end the fondness of the hillmen for 

 field sports has been utilized with con- 

 stantly increasing success. 



Members of six of the northern Luzon 

 tribes — namely, the Ilongots, the Ifugaos, 

 the Kalingas, the Bontoc Igorots, the un- 

 civilized Tingians of Apayao, and the 

 Negritos of the east coast of northern 

 Luzon — have until recently followed that 

 wildest and most dangerous of all such 

 sports, in which the reward of success 

 is a gory human head and the penalty 



