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Updated: May 28, 2025
It passes through the pueblos of Bayambang, Quiangan, and Banawi, in the Province of Nueva Vizcaya. The main trail is to-day passable for a horseman from the coast terminus to Tinglayan, three days beyond Bontoc pueblo. Practically all other trails in the area are simply wild footpaths of the Igorot.
In the last Bontoc-Tulubin foray a fine, strapping Tulubin warrior sung out that he wanted to fight ten men he was taken at his word so suddenly that his head was a Bontoc prize before his friends could rally to assist him. In March we were returning from a trip to Banawi of the Quiangan area, and were warned we might be attacked near a certain river.
It is a broad blade swelling markedly toward the center, and is somewhat similar in shape to the barong of the Sulu Moro of the Sulu Archipelago. This weapon finds its chief field of use in the Quiangan and Banawi areas. In these districts the bolo is fitted with an open scabbard, and the bright blade presents a novel appearance lying exposed against the red scabbard.
In the Banawi district, south of the Bontoc area, there are terrace walls certainly 75 feet in height, though many of these are not stoned, since the earth is of such a nature that it does not readily crumble. It is safe to say that nine-tenths of the available water supply of the dry season in the Bontoc area is utilized for irrigation.
However, Bontoc pueblo, because of her strength, is not so evacuated she expects no enemy strong enough to burst through and reach the defenseless. In the Banawi area, where the dwellings are built on prominences frequently a hundred or more feet above the surrounding territory, they say the women often remain and assist in the defense by hurling rocks.
In the forest feeding grounds of Polus Mountains, between the Bontoc culture area and the Banawi area to the south, these pitfalls are very abundant, there frequently being two or three within a space one rod square. A deadfall, called "il-tib'," is built for hogs near the sementeras in the mountains.
Southward the area includes all to the top of the watershed of Polis Mountain, which turns southward the numerous streams feeding the Rio Magat. The pueblos south of this watershed Lubong, Gisang, Banawi, etc. belong to the short-haired people of Quiangan culture.
Seven pueblos of the lower Quiangan region went against the scattered groups of dwellings in the Banawi area of the upper Quiangan region in May, 1902. The invaders had seven guns, but the people of Banawi had more than sixty a fact the invaders did not know until too late. However, they did not retire until they had lost a hundred and fifty heads.
A fish feast follows for the evening meal. The next day the mang-ay'-yu ceremony occurs. At that time the men of the ato, go near the place where their companion lost his head and ask the beheaded man's spirit, the pinteng, to return to their pueblo. Pl. CXXXVI shows the burial of a beheaded corpse in Banawi in April, 1903.
In Banawi, in the Quiangan culture area, a district having no public buildings, one can scarcely find a trace of skin eruption. There are two adult people in Samoki pueblo who are insane; one of them at least is supposed to be affected by Lumawig, the Igorot god, and is said, when he hallooes, as he does at times, to be calling to Lumawig.
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