Tasaday
Americannoun
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Tasadays,
plural
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Tasaday
plural
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Tasaday, the 9-10 jolly in the fillies' race, managed to get beaten after being allowed a soft lead.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2013
In The Gentle Tasaday, the story of these unspoiled aborigines is told for the first time with energy and detail by John Nance, an American reporter stationed in Manila.
From Time Magazine Archive
Making contact with the Tasaday, the government agents soon determined that the tribe had been isolated for at least 700 years and perhaps for 2,000, and had no knowledge of agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Numbering only about a hundred, the Tasaday live in families, consisting of mother, father, unmarried children and sometimes an orphan or childless widow.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through contact with Dafal, the Tasaday have learned to trap birds in a sticky substance; civet cats, rats, monkeys and pigs are taken in primitive traps.
From Time Magazine Archive
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