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The non-Christian peoples of the Philippine Islands Page 1164

Author:
Worcester, Dean C. (Dean Conant)
Publication Info:
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1913, pg 1164

Text on page 1164

1164 A BUKIDNON WARRIOR He is ready for the fray. The upper part of his body is heavily padded as a protection against bolo cuts. The word Bukidnon means a people of the bukid, a or mountain forest and the tribe bearing this name seems to be descended from those natives who escaped conversion and have remained in the interior from the Spanish conquest till the wesfeul da.v. OLD BUKIDNON CHIEF a Datos who have killed large numbers of enemies wear a most remarkable head ornament fashioned from cloth of gold, with elaborate scarlet, blue or white tassels . . no other Phillipine tribe has anything in the least like it.a
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