The woman is the only weaver of fabrics and the only spinner of the materials of which the fabrics are made.  On the west coast the Ilokano men do a great deal of the spinning, but the Igorot man has not imitated them in the industry, though he has often seen them.  Women are the sole potters of Samoki, and they alone transport and vend their wares to other pueblos.  In the Mayinit salt industry only the woman tends the salt house, gathering the crude salt solution.

Only the women plant the rice seed, and they alone transplant the palay; they also care for the growing plants and harvest most of the crops.  In the transplanting and harvesting of palay the woman is given credit for greater dexterity than the man; men harvest palay only when sufficient women can not be found.  Women plant, care for, harvest, and transport to the pueblo all camotes, millet, maize, and beans.

The men and women together construct and repair irrigated sementeras, men usually digging the earth while the women transport it.  Together they prepare the soil of irrigated sementeras, and carry manure to them from the pigpens.  Men at times do the women’s work in harvesting, and women sometimes assist the men to carry the harvest to the pueblo.  Either threshes out and hulls the rice, though the woman does more than half this work.  Both prepare foods for cooking, cook the meals, and serve them.  Both bring water from the river for household uses, though the woman brings the greater part.  Each tends the babe while the other works in the field.  Both care for the chickens and pigs, even to cooking the food for the latter.  Men and women catch fish by hand in the river, manufacture tapui, and in the salt industry both evaporate the salt solution and vend the salt.

In the treatment of the sick and the driving out of afflicting anito, men and women alike serve.

Little work is demanded of the old people, though the labors they perform are of great value to the pueblo, as the strong are thus given more time for a vigorous industrial life.

Great service is rendered the pueblo by the councils of the old men, and they are the “priests” of all ceremonials, except those of the household.

The old men do practically nothing at manual labor in the field.  However, numbers of old men and women guard the palay sementeras from the birds, and they frequently tend their grandchildren about the pueblo.  They also bring water from the river to the dwelling.

Old women seem generally busy.  They prepare and cook foods, and they spin materials for women’s skirts and girdles.  The blind women share in these labors, even going to the river for water.

By labor of the group is meant the common effort of two or more people whose everyday possessions and accumulations are not in common, as they are in a family, to perform some definite labor which can be better done by such effort than by the separate labors of the several members of the group.