Identifier: inhabitantsofphi00sawy (find matches)
Title: The inhabitants of the Philippines
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sawyer, Frederic Henry Read
Subjects: Ethnology -- Philippines Philippines -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gue. Thewomen have also well-marked figures and rounded limbs.The fashions vary with different tribes, but it is commonto find both sexes wearing their hair cut in a fringe overthe forehead, but reaching down to the eyebrows, long enoughat the sides to cover the ears, left long at the back of thehead, where it is gathered up into a knot. The Igorrotes of Lepanto wear beards, some of themare as thick as a Spaniards, but the tribes farther Southpull out, not only their beards, but all the hair on theirbodies, except that of the head. Their dress varies froma mere apron (Bahaque) when at work in the fields, to anornamental jacket very smartly cut and elaborate sword-belt when at war or on any full-dress occasion. Thesejackets are very handsome and have stripes of blue, crimsonand white. They wear a variety of head-dresses, turban,Salacot or a kind of cocked-hat and feathers. Both menand women wear cloaks or plaids of bright colours madeof cotton. Although the word Igorrote has come to be
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IGORROTES: THEIR ORNAMENTS 255 almost a generic name for the heathen Highlanders ofNorth Luzon, it is here limited to those who dwell on theWestern part of the Cordillera Central, comprising thewhole of the districts of Benguet and Lepanto, part ofBontoc and parts of the Provinces of La Union and I locosSur. The sub-tribes Buriks and Busaos are included. Tattooing is very general amongst them. In some dis-tricts you can hardly find a man or woman who has not afigure of the sun tattooed in blue on the back of the hand,for in Central Benguet they worship the sun. S^me othem tattoo the breast and arms in patterns of straight andcurved lines pricked in with a needle in indigo blue. TheBusao Igorrotes, who live in the North of Lepanto, tattooflowers on their arms, and in war-dress wear a cylindicalshako made of wood or plaited rattan, and large copperpendants in their ears. These people do not use theTalibon, and prefer the spear. The Burik Igorrotes tattoothe body in a curious manner, giv

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