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The Mayawyaw ritualBook 1941 • Lambrecht, Francis
Ifugao • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source is divided into five parts as follows: Part I (pp. 1-167), Rice Culture and Rice Ritual; Part II (pp. 169-325), Marriage and Marriage Ritual; Part III (pp. 327-493), Death and Death Ritual; Part IV (pp. 495-711), Property and Property Rit...Ifugaw weavingarticle 1958 • Lambrecht, Francis
Ifugao • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article, written by a long-term missionary among the Ifugao of Kiangan, is a highly detailed description of all aspects of weaving. The author presents a complete inventory of weaving tools and describes the processing of raw materials in prepar...The Mayawyaw ritualarticle 1957 • Lambrecht, Francis
Ifugao • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article is an ethnographic description of Mayawyaw Ifugao hunting and fishing methods and the rituals connected with it. A great number of native terms are given throughout this article. The Mayawyaw's main subsistence consists of rice and sweet...Ifugaw villages and housesarticle 1929 • Lambrecht, Francis
Ifugao • Asia > Southeast Asia
This chapter is a highly detailed description of Ifugao villages and houses in the Kiangan, Banaue, Mayoyao and Dukligan districts of the Mountain Province of Northern Luzon, written by a missionary among the Ifugao. The clustering and isolation of p...Ancestors' knowledge among the Ifugaos and its importance in the religious and social life of the tribearticle 1954 • Lambrecht, Francis
Ifugao • Asia > Southeast Asia
This short article, written by a missionary, discusses the function and extent of knowledge of genealogies among the Ifugao. Every man has some facility in reciting their household genealogies; priests, the expert genealogists, are needed to trace co...The Mayawyaw ritualarticle 1955 • Lambrecht, Francis
Ifugao • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article presents a most detailed description of the various healing rites among the Mayawyaw Ifugao. It contains a great number of texts with translations in English. Here, as well as in the other sources in the Ifugao file, no clear distinction...