The Bontoc Igorot

Albert Ernest Jenks

Manila 1905

Letter of Transmittal

Department of the Interior, The Ethnological Survey,

Manila, February 3, 1904.

Sir: I have the honor to submit a study of the Bontoc Igorot made for this Survey during the year 1903. It is transmitted with the recommendation that it be published as Volume I of a series of scientific studies to be issued by The Ethnological Survey for the Philippine Islands.

Respectfully,

Albert Ernst Jenks,

Chief of The Ethnological Survey.

Hon. Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of the Interior, Manila, P. I.

Table of Contents

• Letter of Transmittal
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Igorot Culture Group
  • Igorot land
  • Igorot peoples
• The Bontoc Culture Group
  • Bontoc culture area
  • Marks of Bontoc culture
  • The Bontoc man
    • Introduction
    • Historical sketch
    • Somatology
• General Social Life
  • The pueblo
    • Ato
  • The family
    • Childbirth
    • Twins
    • Abortion
    • Child
    • Life in olag
    • Marriage
    • The aged
  • Sickness, disease, and remedies
  • Death and burial
• Economic Life
  • Production
    • Natural production
    • Cultural production
    • Division of labor
    • Wages, and exchange of labor
  • Distribution
    • Theft
    • Conquest
  • Consumption
    • Foods
    • Beverages
    • Salt