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spirits, and one in a little spirit house known as tangpap (cf. p. 311). 

 For an hour or more, the medium makes dawak, and summons many 

 spirits into her body. When the last of superior beings has made his 

 call, the medium goes to her home, carrying her payment for the day's 

 work, 1 but the townspeople remain to drink bast and to sing da-eng 

 until well into the night. 



Early the next morning, the medium goes to the house, and remov- 

 ing the jars and the bundle of decorated rice from the tabing, carries 

 them to the family's rice granary, and places them in the center of that 

 structure, covering them with six bundles of rice. This is an offering 

 to the spirit residing there, and for the next five days the granary must 

 not be opened. 



Nothing more of importance takes place during the morning, but 

 late in the afternoon the people assemble in the dwelling to drink basi, 

 while one or more mediums summon the spirits. After a time a sterile 

 female pig is brought in and placed in the center of the room. Two 

 men armed with long knives slice the animal open along the length of 

 its stomach. An old man quickly slips in his hand, draws out the still 

 palpitating heart, and hands it to a medium, who in turn strokes the 

 stomachs of members of the family, thus protecting them from 

 intestinal troubles. She also touches the guests and the articles which 

 have been used during the day. For this second day this medium 

 receives, as pay, the head and two legs of the pig, a hundred fathoms of 

 thread, a dish of broken rice, and five bundles of unthreshed rice. She 

 also is given a small present in exchange for each bead she received 

 when the spirits entered her body. 



Following the ceremony, the members of the family are barred 

 from work, usually for one moon, and during this period they may not 

 eat of wild pig or carabao, of lobsters or eels. An infraction of this 

 rule would incur the wrath of the spirits and result in sickness and 

 disaster. 



Tangpap. — In many of the valley towns Tangpap is only a part of 

 Sayatig (cf. p. 345), and is never given alone, but in Manabo, Lagan- 

 gilang, and nearby settlements it is recognized as one of the ceremonies 

 which must be celebrated before a family acquires the right to Sayang. 

 In these villages it follows Pala-an after a lapse of two or three years. 

 It was during the progress of this ceremony in the village of Manabo, 

 in 1908, that the writer and his wife were made members of the tribe, 



1 This consists of two bundles of rice, a dish of broken rice, a hundred 

 fathoms of thread, one leg of the pig, and a small coin. 



