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Updated: July 13, 2025
Many pieces of fireworks of fantastic shapes wheels, castles, bulls, carabaos had been set off, surpassing in beauty and grandeur anything ever before seen by the inhabitants of San Diego.
Either is worth a large price to-day in the central part of the area or from one to two carabaos but it is quite impossible to purchase them even at that price. Gang'-sa music consists of two things rhythm and crude harmony.
Carabaos are at present valued in Bontoc at about 50 pesos, and hogs average about 8 pesos. All rich people own one or more gold earrings valued at from one to two carabaos each. The so-called richest man in Bontoc, Lak-ay'-eng, has the following visible personal property: Articles Value in peso Fifty carabaos, at 50 pesos each 2,500 Thirty hogs, at 8 pesos each 240
The animals were managed by a man who drove them and turned them at will, using only his voice and a long switch. It is impossible to get carabaos to many irrigated sementeras because of the high terrace walls, but this herd is used annually in the Bontoc river bottom. After each rice harvest the soil of the irrigated sementera is turned for planting camotes, but this time it is turned dry.
It is not a war blade, but is used almost entirely in killing carabaos and hogs. There is one notable exception to this statement Ambawan has almost no other class of spear. These blades range from 4 to 12 or 14 inches in length. The other two blades, si-na-la-wi'-tan and kay-yan', are relatively rare.
It is doubtful whether at any time they could have depended for even as much as a day in a week on the natural foods of the Bontoc culture area. The country has wild carabaos, deer, hogs, chickens, and three animals which the Igorot calls "cats," but all of these, when considered as a food supply for the people, are relatively scarce, and it is thought they were never much more abundant than now.
This is an invitation addressed to the wild carabaos of the Sakapa and Okiki Mountains to come in closer to Bontoc. They are also asked to note that a fire-feast is made in their honor. The old men say that probably 500 wild carabaos have been killed by the men of the pueblo.
He is seldom sold outside the pueblo and is raised for consumption, chiefly on various ceremonial occasions. Four men in Bontoc own fifty carabaos each. Three others have a herd of thirty in joint ownership. Others own five and six each, and again a single carabao may be the joint property of two and even six individuals. Carabaos are valued at from 40 to 70 pesos. Hog
During the second day men had succeeded in catching in the mountains one of the half-wild carabaos property of the deceased and this was killed. Its head was placed in the house tied up by the horns above and facing Som-kad', so the faces of the dead seemed looking at each other, while on the third day the flesh, bones, intestines, and hide were cooked for the crowd.
The roads throughout the island are excellent and have been carefully marked by the Java Motor Club, though fast driving is made dangerous by the bullock carts, pack trains and carabaos, which pay no attention to the rules of the road. Nor is motoring particularly expensive, for an excellent seven-passenger car of a well-known American make can be hired for forty dollars a day.
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