Ifugaon.adj.

1859 J. Bowring Visit to Philippine Islands viii. 171 This race [sc. Itaneg] has a mixture of Chinese blood, the Ifugaos of that of the Japanese.

1875 F. Jagor Trav. Philippines v. 55 [Dialects of] Nueva Vizcáya: Gaddan, Ifugao, Ibilao, Ilongote.

1900 F. H. Sawyer Inhabitants Philippines i. xxviii. 271 The Ifugaos, who bear a strong resemblance to the Japanese, inhabit a territory in central Nueva Vizcaya.

1901 A. G. Robinson Philippines x. 166 Following these tongues [sc. Visayan, Ilocano]..are the Pampangan..Ibanag, Ifugao, Ibilao [etc.]... Most of them are dialects, though sufficiently different to be practically unintelligible to those of other groups.

1914 D. C. Worcester Philippines Past & Present xx. 535 I assured him that we were friends who had come to get acquainted with the Ifugaos.

1914 D. C. Worcester Philippines Past & Present xx. 536 An Ifugao climbed down from above.

1944 W. E. Harney Taboo (ed. 3) 21 The Melville Island native shield..may have come from the shields of the ‘Ifugao’ of the Philippine Islands.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iii. 50 In Ifugao in the Philippines and in Moré, a language of the Haute Volta, ‘hair’ and ‘feathers’ are included under the same term.

1968 R. Nelson Philippines 131 (caption) The Ifugaos are talented and artistic woodcarvers.

1900 F. H. Sawyer Inhabitants Philippines i. xxviii. 272 The Spaniards built and garrisoned a chain of forts in the Ifugao territory to keep them in order.

1914 D. C. Worcester Philippines Past & Present xx. 537 My mission to the Ifugao country was to establish kindly relations with the people.

1968 R. Nelson Philippines 133 (caption) An Ifugaon peasant..leaving his tobacco field.