In further proof of the local civilization, the women wear false hair.  One matron was obliging enough to undo her coiffure for our benefit, and held out by its end, for our admiring inspection, a mighty wisp nearly three feet long.  She put it back on for us after the manner, as I have since been informed, of a coronet braid.  The men gave fewer evidences of civilization, unless smoking cigars in holders will serve.  However, one man brought up his wife and children and regularly introduced them to us, the woman doing her part with great coolness, while the children gave every sign of terror.  This incident struck me as being very unusual.  Everyone had on at least one necklace, and some three or four necklaces, of dog-teeth, of agate beads (these being immensely prized, agate not being native to the Philippines), or of anything else the form, color, and hardness of which could make it answer for purposes of ornament.  One young woman had on sleigh-bells, the tinkle of which we heard before we saw its source, an incongruous sound in those parts.  These bells must have been brought down by Chinese trading from the plains of Manchuria.  Two or three young men displayed what looked like lapis lazuli around their necks, but what turned out at closer quarters to be pieces of a blue china dinner-plate.  They had cut out the white interior and then divided the rim radially, the jewels thus formed being all of the same size and shape, with perfectly smooth edges.  Here, too, were the same pill-box hats as those seen at Bontok, some elaborately beaded and costing from one to five carabaos apiece; in one case the lid of a tomato tin had been pressed into service as a hat.  But the finest thing of all was the head-ax, a beautiful and cruel-looking weapon, the head having on one side an edge curving back toward the shaft, and on the other a point.  To keep the weapon from slipping out of the hand, a stud is left in the hard wood shaft, about two-thirds of the way from the head, the shaft itself being protected by a steel sheathing half way down; the remainder being ornamented with decorative brass plates and strips, and the end shod in a ferrule of silver.  The top of the ax is not straight, but curved, both edge and point taking, as it were, their origin in this curve; the edge is formed by a double chamfer, the ax-blade being of uniform thickness.  All together, this weapon is perhaps more original and characteristic than any other native to the Philippine Archipelago.  With it goes the Kalinga shield of soft wood, made in one piece, with the usual three horns or projections at the top and two at the bottom.  These projections, however, are cylindrical, and the outside ones are continued down the edge of the shield and so form ribs.  In the ordinary Igorot shield the horns are flat, merely prolonging the surface of the shield, or else presenting only a very small relief.  As usual, a lacing of bejuco across top and bottom protects the shield against a separation in the event of an unlucky stroke splitting it in two.