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exhibit of Igorot work, a much smaller one of More origin, as well as helmets, 
nightcaps, and hats the locality of which is doubtful, the following is a summary. 
Sombreros of bamboo from the provinces of Bulacan and Iloilo; nito, Albay 
and Camarines; bamboo and nito, Bulacan and Iloilo; rattan, Albay; bamboo 
and rattan, Bulacan; fine buri, Pangasinan; buri, Pangasinan, Tayabas, Albay, 
Cebu, and Burias; buntal, Tayabas, Bulacan, Albay, and Cebu; pandan. Laguna; 
nipa, Samar; cogon (a grass), Albay; abaca (hemp), Albay and Samar; gourds, 
Ilocos Sur; and of woods, from Zambales, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Rizal, Tayabas, 
Albay, Cebu, Capiz, all of these probably better classed as salacots. 
Salacots of bamboo, Iloilo, Tayabas, Batangas, Laguna, Albay, Rizal, Bataan; 
rattan, Tayabas, Abra; nito, Ilocos Sur, Union, Pangasinan, Tayabas, Batangas, 
Albay, Iloilo, Bohol, Cebu; rattan and nito, Cagayan de Misamis; nito and silver, 
Cagayan (Luzon) and Tayabas; bamboo and rattan, Ilocos Norte, Lepanto, Albay, 
Iloilo; bamboo and buri, Antique; fine buri, Pangasinan; pandan, Laguna; 
nipa, Samar; anajao, said to be from Manila but more probably from the prov- 
inces; gourds, Cagayan, Union, Abra, Cebu, Samar; bark, Iloilo, Camarines Sur; 
wood, Tayabas, Bulacan, Laguna, Iloilo. 
Definite figures regarding exports are available from 1848, those for 
the years 1848 to 1856 being giveh by Ellis, 24 those from 1854 to 1902 
tabulated in the Philippine Census report of 1903, 25 and later data being 
furnished by the Customs reports. It is unfortunate that where the 
first two sources overlap, the figures are quite different. According to 
Ellis, the total export from 1848 to 1854, the data for the two succeeding 
years being obviously incomplete, was 208,538 hats. Australia took 
162,496; the United States 35,172; California and Pacific Coast, sepa- 
rately enumerated as additional, 5,642; Europe 5,228. Australia is 
credited with 57,364 for 1854, over 20,000 in excess of the total for 
that year as given by the census; in 1850, the United States bought 
25,880. 
From the beginning, there has been a remarkable annual fluctuation, 
both in the grand totals and in those for the various countries, with 
increases or decreases in value not at all in agreement. Thus, from 
1867 to 1873, the number rose from 25,826 to 102,216, but the value 
fell from 28,852 dollars to 16,976 dollars. The general tendency has 
been strongly upward, the maxima being 57,364 hats in 1854, 83,785 in 
1855, 102,216 in 1873, 367,745 in 1882, 253,323 in 1888, after which 
there seems to have been a great decrease until after the American oc- 
cupation. Eecently, the increase has been very, decided but still with 
fluctuations, the totals for the calendar years from 1906 to 1909 being 
627,307, 579,659, 391,328, and 592,961, of a total value of 787,260 
dollars American currency. 
For some time, France has been much our best customer, buying in 
the four years cited, 873,518 hats valued at 366,597 dollars, nearly 40 
per cent of the total number and over 46.5 per cent of the value. The 
United States took 426,627; Great Britain, 408,346; Australasia, 99,268 ; 
21 Ellis, H. T. Hongkong to Manila (1859) 288, 289. 25 3: 468. 
