[19] Our information concerning these peoples is limited, but of much interest. Besides the work of Garvan, the chief sources are the Letters of the Jesuit Fathers and a paper on the Subánuns [Christie, Pub. P. I. Bur. Sci., Div. Ethnol. (1909), 6, pt. 1]. The latter does not record any myths, but gives several song-stories about great culture-heroes which throw much light on the character of the Subánun mythology and identify it with the mythologies of the other pagan tribes of Mindanao. These hero-stories are too long to be given here. [↑]
[20] The Tin͠ggiáns, or Itnegs, should be excepted, as there are important and accurate accounts of these people by Gironière, Reyes, Worcester, Cole, and others. [↑]
[21] According to the translation by James A. Robertson in Blair and Robertson, The Philippine Islands (1906), 33, 167–171. [↑]
[22] Note the similarity of this place-name to the Kágbubátan͠g of the Manóbo legend, p. 89. [↑]
[23] Translated by Roberto Laperal from “Igorrotes,” by Angel Perez. Manila (1902), 319–320. [↑]
[24] Jenks, Albert Ernest, [The Bontoc Igorot], Pub. P. I. Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1. [↑]
[25] Seidenadel, Carl Wilhelm, The First Grammar of the Language Spoken by the Bontoc Igorot, with a Vocabulary and Texts. The Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago (1909). [↑]
[26] Opus. cit., 485–510. Seidenadel gives an interlinear literal translation, which is, in some places, slightly inaccurate. I have made a new free translation directly from the Bontok. The text was told in the form of a story rather than that of a myth, and contains much extraneous matter which I have omitted. [↑]
[28] There are about 127,000 Ifugaos, nearly all living in the subprovince of Ifugao. They are divided into a large number of hereditary clans, each of which has its own social and political organization. They are an agricultural people, and have developed their great stone-faced terraced rice fields to an extent probably not equaled elsewhere in the world. I do not believe that the physical type, language, or culture of these people is wholly a native development. The evidence seems to indicate that the present-day Ifugaos are the result of mixture, perhaps one or more thousand years ago, of several widely different native types with an incoming people of high culture. Indications seem to point to the highlands of Burma as the original home of this highly-cultured people, but this is a supposition that will require proof. Within historic times the Ifugaos have been almost entirely free from mixture of any sort. [↑]