apayaos

Updated: August 1, 2026

Strong told me, on his return to Manila, that, looking into a head-basket after leaving Tabuk, he found in it fresh fragments of a human skull; for the Apayaos take the skull like the other highlanders, but unlike them, break it into pieces. But with these people head-hunting is a part of their religious belief, and so all the harder to uproot.

Cornélis de Witt Willcox - The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon