Bontok
Americannoun
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Bontoks,
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Bontok
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While our friends the Ifugaos were, on the whole, a quiet lot, these Bontok people seemed to be fond of making a noise, of shouting, of loud laughter.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
From Banawe we rode to Bontok, thirty-five miles, in one day, May 7th.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
Neither of them could make out a word in the poor village we had just passed through, nor anywhere else on the road in the Bontok country.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
North of Bontok are the “Tinglayan,” the “Tinggian” or “Itnig,” the “Kalinga,” and “Apayao” areas, and perhaps others.
From The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon by David Prescott Barrows
Our column was to be increased by a party of Ifugaos, whom, with a head man named Comhit, Gallman wished to take through the Bontok into the Kalinga country.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
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