Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953 / 2008-06-24 00:00:00

EBOOK THE BONTOC IGOROT ***


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The Bontoc Igorot
by Albert Ernest Jenks


Letter of Transmittal
Department of the Interior, The Ethnological Survey,
MANILA, FEBRUARY 3, 1904.
Sir: I have the honor to submit a study of the Bontoc Igorot made
for this Survey during the year 1903. It is transmitted with the
recommendation that it be published as Volume I of a series of
scientific studies to be issued by The Ethnological Survey for the
Philippine Islands.
Respectfully,
Albert Ernst Jenks,
CHIEF OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL SURVEY.
Hon. Dean C. Worcester,
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, MANILA, P. I.


Preface
After an expedition of two months in September, October, and November,
1902, among the people of northern Luzon it was decided that the Igorot
of Bontoc pueblo, in the Province of Lepanto-Bontoc, are as typical of
the primitive mountain agriculturist of Luzon as any group visited, and
that ethnologic investigations directed from Bontoc pueblo would enable
the investigator to show the culture of the primitive mountaineer of
Luzon as well as or better than investigations centered elsewhere.
Accompanied by Mrs.
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