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