Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1912 — Gifts for Fillpino Tribesmen. [ARTICLE]

Gifts for Fillpino Tribesmen.

While traveling around among these people of th* mountains the giving of present* entero a great deal Into the methods of treating with them. A» a rule the gifts which are acceptable are mere trifles. Among the Ifugaos a custom formerly required them to wear In the hair a white rooster's feather on fiesta day*. More recently a strip of onion skin tissue paper an inch wide has been Introduced, and it to now the universal proeent from the secretary on Ms visit. These papers are worn as a sign of holiday, and after the fiesta is over they ar* carefully preserved till another occasion cMls them forth. The Ilongota and Callngas like beads, and a common bead of Imitation agate wMch is worth a few centavos In Manila has its value enhanced till it is worth 50 centavos in the hills. Scarlet cloth is also acceptable to the Ifugaos and Hongots, One of the very highest prises of all is the pearl oyster shell, and several of these are always taken along. A groat deal of discretion must be exercised in giving such presents, so a* not to cheapen them, nor to place them in the hand* of the wrong people.—Manila Time*.