Smyrna times., 1904-09-07


ARTS, WORLDS FAIR.
rote. who dimes on dog meat, and
visitors are entertained by Visayan
actors and actresses. Nothing is lack
ing to make the show complete.
The Administration building is a rep
lica of the government offices in Ma
Mia, while the Art and Education
building reprOduces in miniature the
cathedral within the walled city, even
the mellOwed tints of age being faith
fully rendered. A section of the an
cient but still serviceable town wall
has been reconstructed to serve the dOu-
bic purpose of a gateway to the show
and a museum of arms and war relics.
The other main edifices are types of
Filipino homes, being built of undress-
ed timber, bamboo and rattan, with
thatched roofs and broad verandas
Then there are the tribal villages
Nesting under the trees, some of the
houses perched high up among the
bOughs, others on piles above the wa
ters of the Arrowhead lake, all of them
actual dwellings fashioned of native
materials by native workmanship and
illustrating the manners. customs and
pursuits of their occupants. Here are
women weaving a coarse cloth on q
rude hand loom, others making bas-
kets, others tending irrigated fields of
rice. One group of men are in village
council, trying an offender according
to their tribal laws; others are slowly
moving in a circular dance to the thump
| of tomtoms and the clang of brass
| gOngs; others, again. are smelling iron
| by the aid of a primitive but most in
| geniOus bellows, the constituent parts
of which are bamboo tube and an air
| tight mop of feathers working therein
like the piston of a syringe. And these
are but few of an almost endless va
riety of life pictures.
The chronological problem is a some
what complicated one; but, although
there are no fewer than sixteen races
represented among the village dwellers,
the scouts and the cOnstabulary, each
race speaking its own dialect and fol-
lowing its own customs, all may be
roughly classified into four groups
the true abOriginals or nOn-Malays, the
pagan Malays, the Christian Malays
and the MOhammedan Malays.
The first are the dwarf Negritos, with
dark skins and woolly heads, wearers
Of scanty raiment, proficient in the use
of the bow and poisoned arrow, race
of nomads and forest dwellers, pagans
pure and simple. They live in theiI
own stockaded village.
Next to them are the Igorrotes
whose origin is traced back to the frs
wave of Malay invasion. Hefe, again
we have scanty clothing, amounting
almost to nudity, but copper colOred
skins. long wavy tresses. pleasant fea
tured faces and fine physiques ever
though the stature be small. Among
these pagan Malays are the head hunt
ers and the dog eaters. They are say
ages, yet have their code of laws and {
knowledge of several primitive indus
tries.
The Christian Malays, produced by
the second. wave of invasion, are rep
resented by the Visayans, a tall anC
handsome race, dressing WELL living il
l pretty homes, skilled in weaving, dye
{ ing, basket making, hat making. wOot
carving and other handicrafts, musi
clans of no mean merit, the one groul
of natives who came early and thor
oughly under the influence of the earl,
Spanish settlers.
=. Very different are the Moros, wh
: swept into the islands from the Mala
1 peninsula last of all, bringing wit
v them their Mohammedan religion, ais
4 a knowledge of gunpowder acquires
with the Koran from the Arabs-fans
tics like their teachers, pirates, blood
= thirsty, treacherons and vindictive fe