Background on the Field Data

THE STUDY IS BASED PARTLY ON THE DATA GATHERED IN THE municipality of Banaue, Ifugao, Mountain Province in May, June, July and December of 1966 and January of 1967. The field work was undertaken as a preliminary survey of Ifugao art in order to record and appraise the types of arts and crafts that are still being practiced. Prior to the field trip, I had studied earlier accounts of Ifugao culture from various sources, primarily Barton, Vanoverbergh and Lambrecht.1 In addition to the readings, I had the opportunity to study the National Museum collection in Manila and the University of the Philippines Ethnographic Museum. I am also familiar with the collection of Philippine ethnographic art of the Natural History Museum of Chicago, Illinois. These collections consist mostly of items collected before the second world war. The field data consist of verbatim reports of interviews conducted with Ifugao artists-craftsmen and other informants including translators and guides, as well as description of craft procedures and techniques. I have also relied on information supplied by officials and leaders in the municipality of Banaue especially the municipal treasurer, councilor and other government officers. These observations are restricted not only in time but in space.z They apply to the municipality of Banaue especially to the sitios of Hapao (Sapao in earlier texts and maps), Dalican, Dukligan, Kambulo and Batad and their surrounding barrios. Many of these barrios and sitios are within one to eight kilometers in radius from the municipality of Banaue. Some sitios such as Kambulo and Batad are