St. Louis Globe-Democrat from St. Louis, Missouri • 62

I 1 5 The Physical characteristics of the 4 lbilao tree men are unlike that with the Tarzan of fiction. Their. symivetrical body lines make them seem feminine and this is further borne out Itng hair is dressed and white horsehair as shown in the 1 In Northern Luzon, in the almost unknown interior of Nuova Eciia and Nueva Vizcaya, dwell the lbilaos, a strange race of head-hunters. Only a few white men have seen them. Carl M.

writer-adventurer, who was slain several years ago while investigating a religious cult in New Mexico. was the first to describe and photograph these wild and dangerous aborigines who. can travel at higli speed through the fops of Aleko E. Lilius, well-known American.explorer and journalist, was the lieCond to photograph and describe these tree-runners. Extremely difficult to approach.

if took Mr. weeks to contact them and much longer to overcome their camera shyness and gain their conficlepHce. The accompanying pictures taken by him are probably the only complete record of the tribe's existence. The Ibilaos spend nearly all of their time among the trees, traveling through the jungle fastnesses by means of rattan lines made fast to the tree tops. Their unique means of "air-line" travel is shown in the above photograph.

Civilization has little interfered with these people, the "last unconquered Iliad- hunters," whose protection is their own ruthless strength and treachery. 1 Peace Offerings from a tribe of head-hunters Ibi lao women arriving at the camp of Aleko E. Lilius with a welcome gift of orchids. They refuse to wear gold ornaments because their aversion to that metal dates from the days of the Spanish rule, when they were persecuted for the gold they possessed. Their chiefs then vowed that since gold was the cause of their misfortune, none of their people would be permitted to own it.

2 Making a "Face" at the camera to fool the "spirit" in the box, this Ibilao tree-man does some haunting of his own. Even the fellow tribesman looking on thinks it good enough to imitate. A A Young member of the tree-1 climbing tribe of the ibilaos These youngsters learn to carry their swords almost as soon as they can walk. are Ibilaos, the 'iaft unconquered head-hunters: 2 i leouto (globt-Dtmot-rat, 1 4 or, t- k' 4 4 A 31 1 4:041 Z'- 4,, 7.. -4 41 't ii, I.

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