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, Vol. I, pp. 456 ff., 1903. [46] Paul P. de La Gironiere, who visited the Tinguian in the early part of the nineteenth century, describes these ornaments as follows: "Their heads were ornamented with pearls, coral beads, and pieces of gold twisted among their hair; the upper parts of the hands were painted blue; wrists adorned with interwoven bracelets, spangled with glass beads; these bracelets reached the elbow and formed a kind of half-plaited sleeve." _La Gironiere_, Twenty Years in the Philippines, pp. 108 ff. [47] See _Cole_ and _Laufer_, Chinese Pottery in the Philippines (_Pub. Field Museum of Natural History_, Vol. XII, No. 1). [48] This is entirely in agreement with Chinese records. The Islands always appeared to the Chinese as an Eldorado desirable for its gold and pearls. [49] See p. 21, note 1. [50] See p. 10, note 1. [51] A bamboo pole, about ten feet long, one end of which is slit into several strips; these are forced apart and are interwoven with other strips, thus forming a sort of basket. [52] See _Cole_, Distribution of the Non-Christian Tribes of Northwestern Luzon (_American Anthropologist_, Vol. II, No. 3, 1909, pp. 340, 341). [53] See p. 12. [54] See p. 13, note 5. [55] Among the Ifugao, the lowest of the four layers or strata which overhang the earth is known as Kabuniyan. See _Beyer_, _Philippine Journal of Science_, Vol. VIII, 1913, No. 2, p. 98. [56] See p. 11. [57] An Ifugao myth gives sanction to the marriage of brother and sister under certain circumstances, although it is prohibited in every day life. _Beyer_, _Philippine Journal of Science_, Vol. VIII, 1913, No. 2, pp. 100 ff. [58] As opposed to the spirit mate of Aponitolau. [59] According to _Ling Roth_, the Malanaus of Borneo bury small boats near the graves of the deceased, for the use of the departed spirits. It was formerly the custom to put jars, weapons, clothes, food, and in some cases a female slave aboard a raft, and send it out to sea on the ebb tide "in order that the deceased might meet with these necessaries in his upward flight." Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Vol. I, p. 145, (London, 1896). For notes on the funeral boat of the Kayan, see _Hose_ and _McDougall_, Pagan Tribes of Borneo, Vol. II, p. 35.--Among the Kulaman of southern Mindanao an important man is sometimes placed in a coffin resembling a small boat, which is then fastened on high poles near to the beach. _Cole
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