Hogs are raised for ceremonial consumption.  They are commonly bought and sold within the pueblo, and are not infrequently sold outside.  A pig weighing 10 pounds is worth about 3 pesos, and a hog weighing 60 or 70 pounds is valued at about 12 pesos.

Chicken

The Bontoc domestic chickens were originally the wild fowl, found in all places in the Archipelago, although some of them have acquired varied colorings and markings, largely, probably, from black and white Spanish fowl, which are still found among them.  The markings of the wild fowl, however, are the most common, and practically all small chickens are marked as are their wild kin.  The wild fowl bears markings similar to those of the American black-breasted red game, though the fowls are smaller than the American game fowl.  Each of the twelve wild cocks I have had in my hands had perfect five-pointed single combs, and the domestic cock of Bontoc also commonly has this perfect comb.  I know of no people within the Bontoc area who now systematically domesticate the wild fowl, though this was found to be the custom of the Ibilao southeast of Dupax in the Province of Nueva Vizcaya.  Those people catch the young wild fowl for domestication.

The Bontoc domestic fowl are not confined in a coop except at night, when they sleep in small cages placed on the ground in the dwelling houses.  In the daytime they range about the pueblo feeding much in the pigpens, though they are fed a small amount of raw rice each morning.  Their nests are in baskets secured under the eaves of the dwelling, and in those baskets the brooding hens hatch their chicks, from eight to twenty eggs being given a hen.  The fowl is raised exclusively for ceremonial consumption, and is frequently sold in the pueblo for that purpose, being valued at from half a peso to a peso each.  A wild fowl sells for half a peso.

In Banawi of the Quiangan area, south of Bontoc, one may find large capons, but Bontoc does not understand caponizing.

Dog

The dog of the Bontoc Igorot is usually of a solid color, black, white, or yellow, really “buckskin” color.  Where he originated is not known.  He has none of the marks of the Asiatic dog which has left its impress everywhere in the lowlands of the west coast of Luzon —­ called in the Islands the “Chino” dog, and in the States the “Eskimo” dog.  The Igorot dog is short-haired, sharp-eared, gaunt, and sinewy, with long legs and body.  In height and length he ranges from a fair-sized fox terrier to a collie.  I fail to see anything in him resembling the Australian dingo or the “yellow cur” of the States.  The Ibilao have the same dog in two colors, the black and the “brindle” —­ the brown and black striped.  In fact, a dog of the same general characteristics occurs throughout northern Luzon.  No matter what may be his origin, a dog so widely diffused and so characteristically