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Igorots

  • plural
    of Igorot.
    Igorot
    noun
    a member of a people of Malay descent in northern Luzon in the Philippines, comprising various tribes, noted for their metalwork and weaving.

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The society was also scandalized by the native dress of the Igorots, Rydell said.

From Washington Times Oct. 18, 2019

Ever since, V-J day has been Aug. 14 to the rest of the world but to his friends among the Igorots it is Sept.

From Time Magazine Archive

Back from the Igorots, who pleaded against immediate independence as did the Moros, Secretary Hurley made his first official utterance in the islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other house of San Bartolome was founded for the reduction of the Igorots and Alaguetes in its neighborhood.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

People in Western clothes and in scant breechcloths or tight skirts of Igorots were running into the open to see what was making the racket.

From The Golden Skull by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

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