The Bontoc Igorot

Under the title "Economic life" are considered the various activities which a political economist would consider if he studied a modern community -- in so far as they occur in B...

Bontoc and Samoki pueblos, in all essentials typical of pueblos in the Bontoc area, lie in the mountains in a roughly circular pocket called Pa-pas'-kan. A perfect circle about...

The basis of Igorot religion is every man's belief in the spirit world -- the animism found widespread among primitive peoples. It is the belief in the ever-present, ever-watchf...

The Spanish Bontoc area was estimated about 4,500 square kilometers. This was probably too large an estimate, and it is undoubtedly an overestimate for the Bontoc culture area,...

The language of the Bontoc Igorot is sufficiently distinct from all others to be classed as a separate dialect. However, it is originally from a parent stock which to-day surviv...

For unknown generations these people have been fierce head-hunters. Nine-tenths of the men in the pueblos of Bontoc and Samoki wear on the breast the indelible tattoo emblem whi...

There is relatively little "color" in the life of the Bontoc Igorot. In the preceding chapter reference was made to the belief that this lack of "color," the monotony of everyda...

The Igorot does not know many things in common with enlightened men, and yet one constantly marvels at his practical knowledge. Tylor says primitive man has "rude, shrewd sense....

Northern Luzon, or Igorot land, is by far the largest area in the Philippine Archipelago having any semblance of regularity. It is roughly rectangular in form, extending two and...

It is impossible to put one's hand on any one man or any one group of men in Bontoc pueblo of whom it may be said, "Here is the control element of the pueblo."