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Title: The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao
The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition

Author: Fay-Cooper Cole

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Transcriber's note:

The Table of Contents and the List of Illustrations were added
by the transcriber. The text refers to 76 photographic "PLATES,"
but the source copy contained only the first. Two of the
illustrations were labeled "FIG. 26;" I have labeled them
FIG. 26A and FIG. 26B.

Field Museum of Natural History.
Publication 170.
Anthropological Series Vol. XII, No. 2.

THE WILD TRIBES OF DAVAO DISTRICT, MINDANAO

by

FAY-COOPER COLE
Assistant Curator of Malayan Ethnology

The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition

George A. Dorsey
Curator, Department of Anthropology

[Frontispiece:] TRIBAL MAP OF DAVAO DISTRICT

Chicago, U. S. A.
September, 1913

CONTENTS

I. THE BAGOBO.
II. BILA-AN.
III. KULAMAN.
IV. TAGAKAOLO.
V. ATA.
VI. MANDAYA.
CONCLUSION

ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate 1. TRIBAL MAP OF DAVAO DISTRICT

FIG. 1. SHELL BRACELET.
FIG. 2. NECKLACE OF RATTAN OVERLAID WITH FERN AND ORCHID CUTICLE.
FIG. 3. BRASS ANKLETS WORN BY THE WOMEN.
FIG. 4. TYPES OF BRASS BRACELETS.
FIG. 5. EAR STRETCHERS.
FIG. 6. WOMAN'S EAR PLUGS.
FIG. 7. LITTLE GIRLS' PUBIC SHIELDS.
FIG. 8. THE "STOVE."
FIG. 9. BAMBOO PLATE RACK.
FIG. 10A. RICE MORTAR.
FIG. 10B. PEDESTAL WHICH REACHES TO THE GROUND.
FIG. 10C. CIRCLE OF CORN HUSKS PL