SEIDENADEL, CARL WILHELM: - The First Grammar of the Language spoken by the Bontoc Igorot with a Vocabulary and Texts. Mythology, folk-lore, historical episodes songs. Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Company & London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1909.

. Large and thick 4to. Pp. xxiv, 592 and photo frontispiece. Eleven photographic plates at the beginning of the book. An original photograph of Matyu from Bontoc, a principal informant, pasted in (p. 481). Marginal stain in two places (ca 36 lvs) otherwise a great copy. New endpapers. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt, slight wear to corners and spine. First edition.The Bontoc (Bontok) are the indigenous ethnolinguistic people of the Mountain Province, in the northern part of the Philippines. They formerly practised head-hunting and had distinctive body tattoos. Groups of Bontoc Ig—rot were "displayed" in Chicago in 1906 and 1907. In all, about ninety men and women had been brought to the United States from their homes at Bontoc by Mr. Schneidewind. This kind of "ethnographic display" of animals and people began to appear in Europe from the middle of the 19th century.

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