Author: Fay-Cooper Cole

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 9781330169971

Excerpt from Chinese Pottery in the Philippines In the spring of 1906 Mr. Robert F. Cummings of this city expressed his intention of providing the Field Museum of Natural History with funds to defray the expenses of an extended series of Ethnological investigations in the Philippine Islands. Working under this liberal endowment the following expeditions have been in the field: In 1906 Mr. S. C. Simms visited the Igorot of Benguet, Lepanto and Bontoc, and the Ifugao of Nueva Viscaya. During 1907-8 Mr. F. C. Cole worked among the Tinguian, Apayao and Kalinga tribes of Northern Luzon, and the Batak of Palawan. The late Dr. William Jones reached the Philippines in the fall of 1907 and proceeded to the Ilongot of the Upper Cagayan river, Luzon. After residing a year in that district he was murdered by members of a hostile village. Following Dr. Jones' death Mr. Simms returned to the Philippines, secured the material gathered by Dr. Jones and completed the Igorot and Ifugao collections, visiting for this purpose the Mayayao and Amburayan Igorot, in addition to certain points touched on the first expedition. In the fall of 1909 Mr. Cole returned to the Islands and devoted nearly two years to the study of the pigmy blacks of Bataan province, the Bukidnon of North Central Mindanao, and the several tribes residing about the Gulf of Davao in Southern Mindanao. While the primary object of these expeditions was to gather museum collections, much time was given to the study of the mental and material culture, as well as of the language, folklore and anthropometry of the tribes visited. The results of these studies will appear from time to time in the Anthropological Series of this Museum. The present paper forms the first issue of Mr. Cole's researches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.