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A 1908 photo of a Bontoc warrior bearing a headhunter's chaklag chest tattoo. Among the various Austronesian peoples, head-hunting raids were strongly tied to the practice of tattooing. In head-hunting societies, tattoos were records of how many heads the warriors had taken in battle, and was part of the initiation rites into adulthood. The ...
The head axe, also known as headhunter's axe, is a battle axe of the Cordilleran peoples of the Philippines specialized for beheading enemy combatants during headhunting raids. They are distinctively shaped, with concave or straight blades and elongated upper corners.
A watercolor depiction of an Igorot farm, c. 1896. Samuel E. Kane wrote about his life amongst the Bontoc, Ifugao, and Kalinga after the Philippine–American War in his book Thirty Years with the Philippine Head-Hunters (1933). [37] The first American school for Igorot girls was opened in Baguio in 1901 by Alice McKay Kelly.
A Bontoc headhunter. Igorot is a collective term for multiple ethnolinguistic groups that reside in Northern Luzon which includes the Bontoc, Gaddang, Ifugao, Ilongot, Ibaloi, Isneg, Kalinga, Kankanay, and Tingguian.
TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from […] The post The future of fusion is funk: 50 years of Herbie ...
The term Igorot or Ygolote was the term used by the Spanish for mountain people. The Ifugaos, however, ... but other headhunters did not spare them either. [18]
That said, “Head Hunters” signaled Hancock’s excursion into melodic (and Abdul-Jabbar underscored, “danceable”) r&b and funk, but he himself was steeped in hard bop, modal, fusion and ...
They were formerly headhunters. [7] Presently, there are about 18,000 Bugkalots according to the 2020 census. [8] The Bugkalots tend to inhabit areas close to rivers, as they provide a food source and a means for transportation. Their native language is the Bugkalot language, spoken by about 6,000 people.