Bontok

American  

[bon-tok] / bɒnˈtɒk /

noun

plural

Bontoks,

plural

Bontok

1. a member of a people who inhabit northern Luzon in the Philippines.

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Example Sentences

These are, everywhere possible, terraced for rice, and so successfully that two crops are made every year, as against only one at Bontok and elsewhere.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt

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 Willcox, Cornélis de Witt

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 Barrows, David Prescott

From Banawe we rode to Bontok, thirty-five miles, in one day, May 7th.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt

We now made on, having crossed into Bontok sub-province, and by midday had reached a point on the trail above an Igorot village called Ambawan.

From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Willcox, Cornélis de Witt