A Vocabulary of the Igorot Language as Spoken by the Bontok Igorots: Igorot ...

Published in 1908 by the Bureau of Science in Manila, this vocabulary was produced during the American colonial period in the Philippines. It was part of an extensive scholarly effort by the American government to document the languages and ethnography of the archipelago's indigenous groups, specifically focusing on the Bontok Igorot people of the Mountain Province.

The work was compiled by Walter Clayton Clapp, an Episcopal missionary who lived among the Bontok people for several years. His objective was to create a functional linguistic resource for administrators, educators, and fellow missionaries tasked with navigating the region. While it was received by the academic community of the time as a significant empirical contribution to Austronesian linguistics, it remains a complex artifact reflective of the colonial categorization and study of indigenous cultures at the turn of the century.