The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)
Title: The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)
Author: Dean C. Worcester
Release date: January 26, 2013 [eBook #41918]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024
Language: English
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The Macmillan Company
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Macmillan & Co., Limited
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The Macmillan Co. of Canada,
Ltd.
Toronto
The Metamorphosis of a Bontoc Igorot.
Two photographs of a Pít-a-pit, a Bontoc Igorot boy. The second was taken nine years after the first.
Volume II
New York
The Macmillan Company
1914
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Contents
Vol. II
List of Illustrations
Vol. II
- The Metamorphosis of a Bontoc Igorot Frontispiece
- Facing page
- Head-hunters’ Weapons 508
- The Three Leading Men in the Funeral Procession of an Ifugao who has lost his Head to the Enemy 516
- The Sacred Tree of the Ifugaos 524
- Entrance to the Quiangan Schoolhouse 534
- An Ifugao School 540
- The Sub-provincial Building at Quiangan 546
- Ifugao Constabulary Soldiers 554
- Bontoc Igorot Head-hunters 562
- Bontoc Igorot Women in Banana-leaf Costume 570
- A Bontoc Igorot Tug-of-war 578
- Bontoc Igorot Boys learning to make Furniture 586
- A Conference with Ifugao Chiefs 594
- Finished Trail built by Ifugaos 602
- Difficult Bit of Rock Work on the Mountain Trail in Benguet 610
- A Flying Ferry in Operation 618
- A Wild Tingian of Apayao 626
- Tingian Girls threshing Rice 634
- Typical Manobos 640
- An Old Bukidnon Chief 650
- Typical Street in a Filipino Town 656
- A Typical Bukidnon Village Street 656
- A Typical Improved Bukidnon House 664
- A Typical Neglected Filipino House 664
- Making Friends with the Mandayas 670
- A Mandayan Boy 678
- A Group of Bagobos 686
- Moro Boats coming out to meet the Philippine Commission at Jolo 692
- Among the Moros 700
- A Moro Chief with his Wives and Daughter 706
- Lieutenant-Governor Manuel Fortich of Bukidnon 708
- Governor Frederick Johnson of Agusan 714
- A Typical Peon 722
- The Penalty for Loyalty to the United States 728
- The Philippine Assembly in Session 738
- Señor Sergio Osmeña, Speaker of the Philippine Assembly 742
- The Manila Hotel 750
- Mayon Volcano 756
- The Crater of Taal Volcano 764
- A Bit of the Pagsanjan Gorge 772
- A Giant Tree Fern 780
- Scene on a Bird Island 788
- A Day’s Catch 796
- After the Hunt 804
- Typical Scene at the Edge of a Hardwood Forest 812
- A Typical Forest Scene 820
- Old-style Road across Lowlands 826
- New-style Road across Lowlands 826
- Typical Old-style Country Road 836
- Typical New-style Country Road 836
- A Canga, or Carabao Sledge 844
- A New-style Cart, with Broad-tired Wheels, which does not injure the Roads 844
- Road Destroyers at Work 852
- An Old-style Culvert 858
- The Old Way of Crossing a River 868
- The New Way of Crossing a River 868
- A Typical Old-style Bridge 878
- A Typical Reënforced Concrete Bridge 878
- A Collapsible Bridge 886
- Map: Manila, the Future Distributing Centre for the Far East 888
- Preparing Rice Land for Planting 892
- Planting Rice 892
- A Three-year-old Coffee Bush 902
- A Ceara Rubber Tree 906
- A Typical Cocoanut Grove 918
- A Typical Filipino Town 922
- A Typical Group of Filipinos 930
- A Typical Spanish Mestiza 938
- A Strange Couple 946
- A Member of the Cabaruan Trinity 946
- A Typical Old-style Provincial Government Building 962
- A Modern Provincial Government Building 962
- A Refuge from the Moros 968
- A Possible Office-holder 972