dax," for both fighting and work.

While the above expressed hypothesis of the origin of the Igorot
appears to me to have much probability, for a similar theory
to explain the Malay type of the Ilongot or Ibilao I feel even
stronger confidence. This curious people occupies a very broken
mountain area formed by the junction of the Sierra Madre with the
Caraballo Sur. This is the headwaters of the Kagayan river and to a
less degree of the Pampanga. Besides being wholly mountainous it is
covered with thick and well nigh impenetrable jungle, in which the
scattered homes of these wild people are hidden and protected. They
have long had the worst of reputations as head hunters and marauders,
and little information about them has circulated except wild rumors
of their strange appearance and treacherous ferocity.

They have been described as "very tall," "heavily bearded,"
"light in color," "white," and of a type elsewhere unknown in the
Philippines. For most of these reports there is no foundation. My
experience with this people is limited to two visits to two different
communities, in 1902 to a group in the jurisdiction of Nueva Vizcaya
and in 1909 to a community in the mountains back of Pantabangan,
Nueva Ecija. On the first visit measurements and notes were made of
four men and three women. Their stature was found to be as follows:

Men Women

1480 1386
1518 1440
1553 1510
1590

The average stature of these men was 1535, a little less than the
average stature of Igorot, and so a very short human height. The
cephalic index for the seven, and the nasal index for six (one missing)
are as follows:

Cephalic Index Nasal Index

79.7 77.5
80.7 82.5
80.8 88.6
83.8 88.6
85.1 88.7
87.1 90.9
88.0

All are brachycephalic except one (79.7), and all are platyrhinian
but one.

In the second community I measured twelve men and five women, with
the following results:

Stature Men Stature Women Cephalic Index Nasal Index

1610 1453 89 100
1583 1450 87 98
1582 1441 86 95
1580 1422 85.9