molded and marked must have been on the island long enough to have acquired its typical features here.  The dog receives little attention from his owners.  Twice each day he is fed sparingly with cooked rice or camotes.  Except in the case of the few hunting dogs, he does nothing to justify his existence.  He lies about the dwelling most of the time, and is a surly, more or less evil-tempered cur to strangers, though when a pueblo flees to the mountains from its attacking enemies the dog escapes in a spiritless way with the women and children.  He is bred mainly for ceremonial consumption.

In Benguet the Igorot eats his dog only after it has been reduced to skin and bones.  I saw two in a house so poor that they did not raise their heads when I entered, and the man of the house said they would be kept twenty days longer before they would be reduced properly for eating.  No such custom exists in Bontoc, but dogs are seldom fat when eaten.  They are not often bought or sold outside the pueblo.  A litter of pups is generally distributed about the town, and dogs are constantly bought and sold within the pueblo for ceremonial purposes.  They are valued at from 2 to 4 pesos.

Clothing production

Man’s clothing

Up to the age of 6 or 7 years the Igorot boys are as naked as when born.  At that time they put on the suk’-lang, the basket-work hat worn on the back of the head, held in place by a cord attached at both sides and passing across the forehead and usually hidden by the front hair.  The suk’-lang is made in nearly all pueblos in the Bontoc culture area.  It does not extend uninterruptedly to the western border, however, since it is not worn at all in Agawa, and in some other pueblos near the Lepanto border, as Fidelisan and Genugan, it has a rival in the headband.  The beaten-bark headband, called “a-pong’-ot,” and the headband of cloth are worn by short-haired men, while the long-haired man invariably wears the hat.  The suk’-lang varies in shape from the fez-like ti-no-od’ of Bontoc and Samoki, through various hemispherical forms, to the low, flat hats developing eastward and perfected in the last mountains west of the Rio Grande de Cagayan.  Barlig makes and wears a carved wooden hat, either hemispherical or slightly oval.  It goes in trade to Ambawan.

The men of the Bontoc area also have a basket-work, conical rain hat.  It is waterproof, being covered with beeswax.  It is called “seg-fi’,” and is worn only when it rains, at which time the suk’-lang is often not removed.