{"product_id":"2940014635608","title":"Igorrote Head Hunters of Luzon","description":"Nook version of vintage magazine article originally published in 1903.  Contains 11 Nook pages with 7 illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLots of great info and illustrations seldom seen in the past 100 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRead excerpt -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHead hunting is a custom which has long been associated with the Dyaks of Borneo and with the negro-like races of Papua and Melanesia, but I suppose that in no part of the East has the practice persisted so long and is so active to¬day as in Northern Luzon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rule of the German, the Eng¬lish and the Dutch in Melanesia and the strong hand of Rajah Brooke in Sarawak have about ended the practice in the is¬lands to the south of us, but in Northern Luzon the practice has never been eradicated, and the period of revolutionary struggle of recent years completely breaking up, as it did, the politico-military commandancias of the Spaniards, has permitted a great revival of warfare and head hunting, among the tribes of the Central Cordillera. At the present moment, in certain districts, not as yet occupied by Insular-Constabulary, head hunting is rife. It is the cus¬tom of all these tribes to chop off the heads of the victims of battle, or murder, and carry them home as trophies, where they form the objects of feasting and celebration. Frequently the hands and by some tribes the hearts are also removed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe head is treated very differently by different tribes after it has been secured. Among the Borneo Dyaks the flesh and hair are preserved by a method of smoking and drying. But the Igorrotes of Luzon, so far as I know, keep only the skull. This is sometimes placed on a pole, at other times is kept in the house and among still other tribes is mounted on a small shelf and placed on the wall of the house outside of the door. Some other Igorrotes, after the period of feasting is over, bury the head beneath the floor of the communal building, used by each body of kin as an assembly house and as an asylum. In Bontoc the Igorrotes keep only the lower jaw, which they attach as a handle to their brass gongs or “ganzas,”","brand":"history-bytes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166865146096,"sku":"2940014635608","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014635608_p0.jpg?v=1763612817","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014635608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}