As has been mentioned, there is an unique display of dress by the man at the head-taking ceremony of the ato, when some of the dancers wear boar-tusk armlets, called “ab-kil’,” and a boar-tusk necklace, called “fu-yay’-ya.”

The necklace quite resembles the Indian bear-claw necklace, but it is worn with the tusks pointing away from the breast, not toward it, as is the case with the Indian necklace.  There are about six of these necklaces in Bontoc, and it is almost impossible to buy one, but the armlets are more plentiful.  They are worn above the biceps, and some are adorned with a tuft of hair cut from a captured head.

The movable adornments of the woman are very similar to those of the man.

The unmarried woman wears the flowers or green sprigs in the hair, though less often than does the man.  She wears the ear stretchers, ear plugs, and earrings exactly as he does.  Probably 60 per cent of men and women in some way dress one ear; probably half as many dress both ears.

The chief adornment of the woman is her hairdress.  It consists of strings of various beads, called “a-pong’.”  The hair is never combed in its dressing, except with the fingers, but the entire hair is caught at the base of the skull and lightly twisted into a loose roll; a string of beads is put beneath this twist at the back and carried forward across the head.  The roll is then brought to the front of the head around the left side; at the front it is tucked forward under the beads, being thus held tightly in place.  The twist is carried around the head as far as it will extend, and the end there tucked under the beads and thus secured.  One and not infrequently two additional strings of beads are laid over the hair, more completely holding it in place.

The first string of beads placed on the head usually consists of compact, glossy, black seeds.  Frequently brass-wire rings are regularly dispersed along the string.  These beads are shown in Pl.  CXLII.  The second string, with its white, lozenge-shaped stone beads (Pl.  CXXXIX), is very striking and attractive against the black hair.  This string reaches its perfection when it is composed solely of spherical agate beads the size of small marbles and the longer white stone beads placed at regular intervals among the reddish agates.  It is practically impossible to purchase these beads, since they are heirlooms.  The third string is usually of dog teeth.  They are strung alternately with black seeds or with sections of dog rib.  This string is worn over the hair, running from the forehead around the back of the head, the white teeth resting low on the back hair, and making a very attractive adornment as they stand, points out, against the black hair. (See Pl.  CLII.)

Igorot women dress their hair richly in their important ceremonials.  In an in-pug-pug’ ceremony of Sipaat ato in Bontoc I saw women wearing seven strings of agate beads on their hair and about their necks.  The woman loves to show her friends her accumulated wealth in heirlooms, and the ato or pueblo ceremonies are the most favorable opportunities for such display.  All these various hairdress beads are of Igorot manufacture.