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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1904)
Double Wedding of Igorrotes at World's Fair T. LOUTS, May .-(Spclal Cor. respondence of The Bee.) Fatted dogs have been gathered for tho feast and a dcuble wedding Is soon to be celebrated In the camp of the heud-liunting Igorrotes at tho World's fair. Dog dinners are essential to the Igorrote marriage ceremony, for It Is a section of the canine lntestlno. Stuffed with tender bits of the meat, highly spiced and flavored, that binds the matrimonial contract. Fantastic dances, which are also a part of the ceremony, are daily rehearsed in the Quartel and the reservation has taken on a holiday meln la anticipation of the approaching event. Con cent has been given by tho natives for tha public to witness the weddings, and when all is ready it will be one of ft day's events at the exposition. Governor Hunt's first intimation that love making was being indulged In by his Wards was when Domingo and Boeosso, two of the young warriors, lay aside their ppoars and shields and suddenly began building each a house after the fashion of Ids clan. Domingo Is a Bontoc and his people prefer the low roofed structure with dirt tloor. Bocosso Is a Suyoc; it is the custom of his kind to rear their homes upon high foundations with floors some dis tance from the ground. In such ways the young men set at their tasks and when It was observed what they were about all the village gossiped over the incident. Friends gathered around while Domingo and Bocosso worked and helped them to shape the timbers and select the nipa grass With which the houses were constructed. While the men labored the women brought Water and food and sang songs for their entertainment. Now tho homes have been completed and are reudy for the inspection of the brides. Tugmena is the demure maiden whoso dreamy ryes soothes the Favnge beast of the much tattooed Boeosso. She is IS years old and like her lord Is a full-blooded Suyoc- Bocosso Is distinguished from other Igorrotes because of the unusual size of the ear ornaments which he wears. These are large pieces of wood Inlaid with mir rors and Inserted In ghastly slits through the ears. Laguima, a 17-year-old belle of the B ntoc. tribe, . is to be the bride of the warlike Domingo, whose tattoo marks Indicate that he has brought his share of human heads to the camp of bis chief. This young lady Is very much attached to her pipe, and during rehearsals of the marriage cere mony, she keeps It constantly In her mouth. Antonio, the great chief "of the Igorrotes, has already approved the matches which Cupid has made among his dark-skinned and little-clothed subjects, and the official permission of Governor Hunt, the repre sentative of the United States government, under whose charge the natives were brought to St. Louis, has been given. On the day of the wedding a great feast of dog and rice will be prepared for all the tribes and they will gather on the plaza opposite the governor's bungalow. After the guests have cleaned their plates, the strange dish of dog entrails will be served to the two couples. When this has been eaten. Patriarch Byungasiu will chant a blessing upon the unions. No promises will be exacted, no advice given. With but a single swallow two hearts will be made as one, and the dance will start. Igorrote women are sufficiently modest to don a blanket when they appear In pub lic, but the male limits his dress to a ui'. -. iii t TTi ,f jr: (!.' (. filv.W I j -fn n! s U RE E1IRAK3.M. OP IGORROTE WEDDIXO CEREMONY AT WORLD'S FAIR.-Photo Copyright, IK by tuUiana IMrcliufti Exposition Comiiny. breeehclout. As the danoe proceeds the al most naked forms of the men writhe and wriggle rhythm to the strange music, and not until they are completely exhausted will they forbear the pleasure. When one drops out there Is another to take 1.1s place, end so the merrymaking continues. Contrasted with the brown skins of the men, the bright garments of tho women and their dignified demeanor, make tha dance all the moie interesting. The women dam or goes through none of the contortions performed by the n en, and she is not so quickly fatigued. Sin? turns slowly as upon a phot, the knees bending slightly and the head gracefully swaying in harmony with tho music. When tho season of festivities Is over tho brides will be taken to their new homes, where friends have fixed them out for housekeeping in real Igorrote style. Then the men change their name, but they do not take the names of their wives, as would bo the case If the American custom were reversed. It all depends upon what happens during the early honeymoon ns to what title Do mingo and Bovosso will bear in their after life, for their new names are selected from some Incident surrounding their wedding. If It should rain and thunder one or the other might, after the true custom, be christened "Bad Weather" or Its equivalent In tho lingo of the dog-eaters. JOHN C. SMALI Value of Walnut Wood "Black walnut, so plentiful formerly, has almost entirely disappeared root, trunk and branch," said James Harrison of Ra leigh. N. C. "After the northern manufacturers had exhausted the supply of log timber, others came forward buying up the llmlis and stumps. The stumps produce the curled veneering used In the manufacture of fur niture, and I witnessed the sale of a wal nut stump at Cranberry, Mitchell county, N. C; for $150. I presume that before It reached the manufacturer's it brought twice that sum. "The black walnut grows very fast In Virginia and further south, and why the thousands of acres of waste lands In some ; 1. V0 ; r V.. J ' . 'it-Mr. rf I Si '3 Mydilx1 SST r4 A' a 11 I r least SJ 5 " I h i TUGMENA, WHO IS TO BK THE BBIDR OK BOCASSO, TUB SUYOC W A RK IOR IN TUB IOORROTB V1I.EAGH AT THE WORLD'S FAIR Photo Copyright, 1!t-4, by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co. of the southern states have not been planted In walnut Is a mystery. In ten or twelve years tho walnut should pay for cultivation by the sale of the nuts r.nd continue to pay increasingly until tho tim- IjAOUIMA, THE BRIDE CHOSEN Bt DOMINGO, IS AN 1NVETEUAT13 SMOKER. Photo Copyright, 1!N(4, by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. ber becamo very valuable. At tho old home of the late Senator Mauguin of North Carolina Is a largo grove of black walnut trees which wus planted by him." Wash ington PoBt. Scenes at Laying of Corner Stone for the New South Omaha High School , .. V;. ...L. - -1 j-::;;v if I ft -V; !' "IT.. .WII LTAM JENNINGS BRYAN, 8PBAK1NO IN TUB SUN. rhoto by u SUff Artist. CROWD TIT AT LISTENED TO MR. BUT AN WHEN ITJ1 BrOKH AT SOUTH OMAIIA. rhoto by a Btaff."AaUaC.