This is the second volume of Dean C. Worcester's two-volume history of the Philippines. Drawing on his experience as an American colonial administrator, it surveys the islands' past and conditions in the early twentieth century, including indigenous peoples such as the Bontoc Igorot. It offers a detailed historical and ethnographic perspective for readers interested in the Philippines under American rule.
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The Philippines Past and Present
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The Metamorphosis of a Bontoc Igorot.
The Metamorphosis of a Bontoc Igorot.
The Metamorphosis of a Bontoc Igorot.
Two photographs of a Pít-a-pit, a Bontoc Igorot boy. The second was taken nine years after the first.
The Philippines Past and Present By Dean C. Worcester Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands 1901–1913; Member of the Philippine Commission, 1900– 1913 Author of “The Philippine Islands and Their People” In Two Volumes — With 128 Plates Volume II New York The Macmillan Company 1914
All rights reserved Copyright, 1914, By The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1914. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U. S. A. Contents Vol. II Chapter Page