A pueblo war probably represents the largest necessary group-occupation, because at such time all available warriors unite in a concerted effort.  Next to this, though possibly coming before it, is the group assembled for the erection of a dwelling.  As has been noted, all dwellings are built by a group, and when a rich man’s domicile is to be put up a great many people assemble —­ the men to erect the dwelling, and the women to prepare and cook the food.  A great deal of agricultural labor is performed by the group.  New irrigation ditches are built by, or at the instance of, all those who will benefit by them.  The dam built annually across the river at Bontoc pueblo is constructed by all, or at the instance of all, who benefit from the additional irrigation water.  Wild carabaos are hunted by a group of men, and the domestic carabaos can be caught only when several men surround and attack them.

All interpueblo commerce is carried on by a group of people.  Almost never does a person pass from one pueblo to another alone, and commerce is the chief thing which causes the interpueblo communication.  These groups of traveling merchants consist of from two or three persons to a dozen or more —­ as in the case of the Samoki pottery sellers.

Wages, and exchange of labor

The woman receives the same wage as the man.  There are two reasons why she should.  First, all labor is by the day, so the facts of sickness and maternity never keep the woman from her labor when she is expected and is depended on; and, second, she is as efficient in the labors she performs as is the man —­ in some she is recognized as more efficient.  She does as much work as a man, and does it as well or better.  It is worth so much to have a certain work done in a particular time, and the Igorot pays the wage to whomever does the work.  The growing boy or girl who performs the same labors as an adult receives an equal wage.

Not only do the people work by the day, but they are paid daily also.  Every night the laborer goes to the dwelling of his employer and receives the wage; the wages of unmarried children are paid to their parents.

To all classes of laborers dinner and sometimes supper is supplied.  For weeding and thinning the sementeras of young palay and for watching the fruiting palay to drive away the birds, the only wage is these two meals.  But this labor is light, and frightening away the birds is usually the work of children or very old people who can not perform hard labors.  In all classes of work for which only food is given, much time is left to the laborers in which the men may weave their basket work and the women spin the bark-fiber thread for skirts.

Five manojos of palay is the daily wage for all laborers except those mentioned in the last paragraph.  This is the wage of the wood gatherer in the mountains, of the builder of granaries, sementeras, irrigating ditches, and dikes, and of those who prepare soils and who plant and harvest crops.