Another basket, called “sang’-i,” is generally employed in carrying the man’s food.  It is used for long trips from home, although I have seen it used simply for carrying the field lunch.  It is made of bejuco in Ambawan, Barlig, and Tulubin, and passes widely in the area through commerce.  It is worn on the back, secured by bejuco straps passing in front of the shoulders.

Fang’-ao is the sang’-i with a waterproof bejuco covering.  As it is worn on the back, the man appears to be wearing a cape made of hanging vegetable threads.  This is the basket commonly known as the “head basket,” but it is used for carrying food, blankets, anything, on the trail.  It is made in Ambawan, Barlig, and Kanyu, and is found pretty well scattered throughout the area.  It is shown, front and back view, in Pl.  XCV.

Fa’-i si gang’-sa is an open-work bejuco basket, in shape very similar to the sang’-i, used to carry the gang’-sa, or metal drum.  It is worn slung on the back as is the sang’-i.

A house basket holding about a peck, called “fa-lo’-ko,” is made of a’-nis bamboo.  It is used in various capacities, for vegetables and cereals, in and about the house.  It is made in all the pueblos and is shown in Pl.  Xciv.  A few other household baskets are often found.  Among these are the large, bottle-shaped locust basket, i-wus’, a smaller basket, ko’-lug, of the same shape used to hold threshed rice, and the open-work spoon basket, so’-long, which usually hangs over the fireplace in each dwelling.

The large winnowing tray, lig-o’, shown bottom up in Pl.  XCIII, is made in Samoki and Kanyu of a’-nis bamboo.  There are two sizes of winnowing trays, both of which are employed everywhere in the area.

Several small a’-nis bamboo eating trays, called “ki’-ug,” are shown in Pl.  Xciv.  These food dishes are used on ceremonial occasions, and some of them can not be purchased.  They are made in all pueblos.

Samoki alone is said to make the rice sieve, called “a-ka’-ug.  It passes widely in the pueblo.

Aside from these various basket utensils and implements there are the three kinds of fish traps described in the section on fishing.

There are also three varieties of basket-work hats.  The rain hat called “seg-fi’,” is made in Bontoc, and may be in imitation of those worn nearer the western coast.  This with the suk-lang, the pocket hat always worn by the men and boys, and the kut’-lao. or sleeping hat, worn by children and adults of both sexes, are described under the head of “Clothing.”

Weapon production

Igorot weapons are few and relatively simple.  The bow and arrow, used wherever the Negrito is in Luzon, is not known to the Igorot warrior of the Bontoc culture area.  Small boys in Bontoc pueblo make for themselves tiny bows 1 1/2 or 2 feet long with which they snap light arrows a few feet.  But the instrument is of the crudest, merely a toy, and is a thing of the day, being acquired from the culture of the Ilokano who live in the pueblo.  The Igorot claim they never employed the bow and arrow, and, to-day at least, consider the question as to their ever using it as very foolish, since, they say, pointing to the child’s toy, “It is nothing.”