FIELD SPORTS OF NORTHERN LUZON 



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IFUGAOS DANCING : THE WOMAN HAS BEEN SAUCED BY THE CROWD AND IS 



TALKING BACK 



thorny undergrowth, where they pull, 

 tug, and threaten each other until all 

 are tired out and one is able to get away 

 with the tail, or until an agreement to 

 divide it is reached. When a man has 

 once placed a bit of meat on the ground 

 he will not be further molested, but may 

 turn it over to some less vigorous com- 

 panion to keep for him, or stick it on 

 the point of his lance, which he has pre- 

 viously thrust into the ground, point up. 

 This done, he rushes back for more 

 meat. 



Before the carabao is through kicking 

 his intestines have been torn out and the 

 crowd has a tug-of-war with them, each 

 individual retaining what he can get. 

 When such a mob of people hacks reck- 

 lessly with war-knives, it is inevitable 

 that severe wounds should be accident- 

 ally inflicted. In every scrimmage a 

 number of men are badly cut, but they 



accept their misfortune with absolute 

 good nature, merely shrugging their 

 shoulders and saying that it was their 

 "buni," or luck. No ill-feeling is shown 

 or felt on account of wounds received 

 in a struggle for meat. If the Ifugaos 

 were not extraordinarily skillful in the 

 use of their war-knives serious injuries 

 would be much more frequent. With 

 half a dozen men tugging at a small 

 piece of meat, I have seen an outsider 

 neatly halve it with a single blow, and 

 this without wounding any one ! 



In ten minutes from the time the cara- 

 bao is turned loose he has completely 

 disappeared, having been chopped into 

 bits and carried away. Nothing remains 

 save a pile of partially digested fodder 

 from his stomach, and small boys are 

 hunting through this for stray bits of 

 meat. The next victim is now led out. 

 We emphatically disapprove of turning 



