[2] His first years in the Philippines were spent as a teacher in the Cordillera Mountains on Luzon island, home of the Ifugao people.

He later married Lingayu Gambuk, the daughter of an Ifugao village chief of Amganad, Banaue.

By that time, the anthropology department and its museum that Beyer himself built occupied the entire second floor of Rizal Hall, which housed the university's College of Liberal Arts until 1949.

Beyer remained head of the department until his official retirement from the University of the Philippines in 1954 after 40 years of full-time teaching.

During the Second World War, Beyer was initially allowed to continue his work at Rizal Hall, but he was later interned along with other Americans in the Philippines.

[5] Beyer's work is mentioned in Walter Robb's essay "Man Tracks On Luzon".