Kane, American Supervisor and then Governor, established the capital here
after the Philippine Commission passed the Mountain Province Act, building a
provincial building, hospital, doctor's office, nurse's home, a school, and
provincial prison. He also built the Tagudin-Bontoc trail, which by 1926, could
accommodate a small car.Bontoc is home to the Bontoc Tribe, a feared war-like
group of indigenous people who actively indulged in tribal wars with its
neighbours up until the 1930s. Every Bontoc male had to undergo a rites of
passage into manhood, which may include head hunting, where the male has to
journey (Sometimes
