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BAGOBO, a Malayan tribe of Mindanao island in the Phil ippines with a Negrito strain, remarkable as horsemen and horse breeders from remote times. Polygyny is practised ; there seems to be no exogamous system, but marriage is barred to three de grees of blood-relationship. They believe in a Creator and subsid iary spirits, the war-god and his wife dwelling in a volcano. There are traces of head-hunting; human sacrifice is practised; portions of an enemy's liver are eaten, and graded insignia of red garments are worn by warriors. Clothing is made of hemp fibre ; the spear and the dao are used as weapons, bows and blow-guns rather as toys, small bells for ornament are made by the tire perdue proc ess. Fish are obtained by impregnating water with toxic plants. See Colle, Wild Tribes of Davao District (1913) .

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