Note 3 — Social Organization. Government. The Village

With some modification this description of the Tinguian house and village would apply to those of the western Kalinga and the Apayao,3 and likewise the Christian natives of the coast, but a very different type of dwelling and grouping is found among the neighboring Igorot.4 It is also to be noted that we do not find to-day any trace of tree dwellings, such as were described by La Gironière5 at the time of his visit scarcely a century ago. Elevated watch-houses are placed near to the mountain fields, and it is possible that in times of great danger people might have had similar places of refuge in or near to their villages, but the old men emphatically deny that they were ever tree-dwellers, and there is nothing in the folk-tales to justify such a belief; on the contrary, the tales-indicate that the type of dwelling found to-day, was that of former times.6