Tausug Moros welcome the United States congressional delegation during their visit to Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Moro women perform a folk “fingernail” dance called Pangalay. Moro musicians play bronze gongs and drums. A male Moro dancer performs a “bee dance” to amuse the audience. Native Filipino men participate in a tug of war. Men participate in various athletic events including some taught to them by the United States delegation. Filipino teenagers jump over a hurdle. Filipino men compete in a sprint running race. Filipino Negrito (likely Mamanwa) boys play a game they invented called the spanking game, where the object is to draw blood due to spanking. Men participate in a tug of war game.
Bontoc children engage in athletics in the Philippines. Filipino schoolgirls play volleyball. Mrs. Evans, the American head of a public school in Bontoc (the historical capital of the Cordillera region), accompany Bontoc girls in the school grounds. Filipino women teachers accompany Mrs. Evans and the girls. Girls parade on school grounds. Exteriors of an American-style school building, constructed of brick by an ingenious schoolteacher visitor from Minnesota. Native Bontoc children participate in athletic events like racing and jumping.
Natives of the Philippines. Exteriors of a school building maintained by Belgian priests. Filipino boy students of the school are seen. Exteriors of a church. School children lined up on the school grounds. The school band plays musical instruments. Silk culture being taught to the natives using techniques from Japan. The natives operate devices to spin silk and manufacture silk.
Natives of the Philippines. Ifugao natives perform a dance. Men of the Ifugao tribe dance in a group.
Natives of the Philippines. Exteriors of a government building built by Ifugao head hunters. Men outside the government building. Views of a school building also built by Filipino Ifugao native people.
Natives of the Philippines. Ifugao troops who are expert marksman are seen lined up on a field. The Filipino soldiers drill with rifles and march across the field. Closing slate at end of film states "We have given these headhunters the first government they ever knew; materially stopped the head hunting; destroyed thier plagues and diseases; established schools among them and are transforming their entire life."