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Lighting Culinary and table equipment Various
kinds of food The preparation and cooking of food Preparing the food
Cooking the food Food restrictions and taboos Meals Ordinary meals
Festive meals
CHAPTER IX.
Narcotic and stimulating enjoyments
Drinks used by the Manobos Sugar-palm wine Báhi toddy Sugarcane
brew Extraction of the juice Boiling Fermentation Mead Drinking
General remarks The sumsúm-an Drinking during religious and social
feasts Evil effects from drinking Tobacco preparation and use The
betel-nut masticatory Ingredients and effect of the quid Betel chewing
accessories
CHAPTER X.
Means of subsistence
Agriculture General remarks The time and place for planting rice The
sowing ceremony The clearing of the land The sowing of the rice and
its culture The rice harvest The harvest feast The culture of other crops
Hunting Hunting with dogs Offering to Sugúdun, the spirit of hunters
The hunt Hunting taboos and beliefs Other methods of obtaining game
Trapping Trapping ceremonies and taboos The bamboo spear trap
Other varieties of traps Fishing Shooting with bow and arrow Fishing
with hook and line Fish-poisoning The túba method The túbli method
The lágtañg method Dry-season lake fishing Fishing with nets, traps,

and torches
CHAPTER XI.
Weapons and implements
Introductory remarks Offensive weapons The bow and arrow The bolo
and its sheath A magic test for the efficiency of a bolo The lance The
dagger and its sheath Defensive weapons The shield Armor Traps and
caltrops Agricultural implements The ax The bolo The rice header
Fishing implements The fishing bow and arrow The fish spear
Fishhooks Hunting implements The spear The bow and arrow The
blowgun
CHAPTER XII.
Industrial activities
Division of labor Male activities Female activities Male industries in
detail Boat building Mining Plaiting and other activities Female
industries in detail Weaving and its accessory processes Pottery
Tailoring and mat making

PART III. GENERAL SOCIOLOGICAL
CULTURE

CHAPTER XIII.
Domestic life and marital relations
Arranging the marriage Selection of the bride Courtship and
antenuptial relations Begging for the hand of the girl Determination of
the marriage payment The marriage feast and payment The

reciprocatory payment and banquet Marriage and marriage contracts
The marriage rite Marriage by capture Prenatal marriage contracts and
child marriage Polygamy and kindred institutions Endogamy and
consanguineous marriages Intertribal and other marriages Married life
and the position of the wife Residence of the son-in-law and the
brother-in-law system
CHAPTER XIV.
Domestic life: Pregnancy, birth, and childhood
Desire for progeny Birth and pregnancy taboos Taboos to be observed
by the husband Taboos to be observed by the wife Taboos to be
observed by both husband and wife Taboos enjoined on visitors
Abortion Artificial abortion Involuntary abortion The approach of
parturition The midwife Prenatal magic aids Prenatal religious aids
Accouchement and ensuing events Postnatal customs Taboos The birth
ceremony The naming and care of the child Birth anomalies
Monstrosities Albinism Hermaphroditism
CHAPTER XV.
Domestic life: Medicine, sickness, and death
Medicine and disease Natural medicines and diseases Magic ailments
and means of producing them The composition of a few "Kometán"
Other magic means Bodily ailments proceeding from supernatural
causes Sickness due to capture of the "soul" by an inimical spirit
Epidemics attributed to the malignancy of sea demons Propitiation of
the demons of contagious diseases Sickness and death The theory of
death Fear of the dead and of the death spirits Incidents accompanying
deaths Preparation of the corpse The funeral Certain mourning taboos
are observed Death and burial of one killed by an enemy, of a warrior
chief, and of a priest The after world The death feast
CHAPTER XVI.

Social enjoyments
Instrumental music The drum The gong Flutes The paúndag flute The
to-áli flute The lántui The sá-bai flute Guitars The vine-string guitar
The bamboo-string guitar The takúmbo The violin The jew's-harp The
stamper and the horn of bamboo Sounders Vocal music The language
of song The subject matter of songs The music and the method of
singing Ceremonial songs Dancing The ordinary social dance The
religious dance Mimetic dances The bathing dance The dagger or
sword dance The apian dance The depilation dance The sexual dance
The war dance
CHAPTER XVII.
Political organization: System of government and social control
Clans Territories of the clans and number of people composing them
Interclan relations The chief and his power The source of the chief's
authority Equality among the people Respect for ability and old age
The warrior chief General character Insignia and prowess of the warrior
chief The warrior's title to recognition Various degrees of warrior
chiefship The warrior chief in his capacity as chief The warrior chief as
priest and medicine man
CHAPTER XVIII.
Political organization: War, its origin, inception, course, and
termination
Military affairs in general The origin of war Vendettas Private seizure
Debts and sexual infringements Inception of war Declaration of war
Time for war Preparations for war The attack