The Ceremonies 337 



It was midnight when the medium informed us that no more spirits 

 would come that evening, and we went to rest. 



About six o'clock the next morning, the women began the 

 ceremonial pounding of the rice known as kttong (cf. p. 329) in the 

 yard, while one of the mediums went to the bound pig lying in the 

 dwelling and recited a dlam as she stroked its side ; she also poured a 

 little bast through the slits in the floor for the use of any visiting spirits. 

 While the women were thus engaged, the men were busy constructing 

 spirit houses in the yard. Of greatest importance was the tangpap 

 (Plate XXVII), a small bamboo structure with a slanting roof, resting 

 on four poles, and an interwoven bamboo floor fastened about three 

 feet above the ground. 1 Near one of the house poles a funnel-shaped 

 basket was tied, and in it was set a forked stick, within the crotch of 

 which was a little floor and roof, the whole forming a resting place for 

 the Igorot spirits of Talegteg. The pala-an needed a few repairs, and 

 two of the old men looked after these, while others made two long 

 covered bamboo benches which might be used either by visiting men or 

 spirits. 2 Four long bamboo poles were set in the ground, and a roof 

 placed over them to form the bang-bangsal, a shelter always provided 

 for the spirits of Soyau. 



By ten o'clock all was in readiness, and the people then gathered in 

 the dwelling, where the mediums began summoning the spirits. The 

 first to arrive was Omgbawan, a female spirit whose conversation 

 ran as follows : "I come now because you people ought to make this 

 ceremony. I did not come last night, for there were many spirits here, 

 and I was busy. You people who build tangpap must provide all the 

 necessary things, even though they are costly. It is good that the 

 Americans are here. I never talked with one before." 



Manaldek 3 was the next arrival, and as he was one of the spirits 

 who was supposed to have caused the patient's illness, his visit was of 

 considerable importance. He was presented with a spear and prepared ■ 

 betel-nut. The latter was attached to the point of the weapon, and this 

 was pressed against the body of the pig, then the spirit touched each 

 member of the family in order to drive the sickness from them. 



Mamonglo ordered the family under a white blanket, and then 



1 When the tangpap is built during the Sayang ceremony, it is a little house 

 with two raised floors. On the lower are small pottery jars, daubed with white, 

 and filled with basi (Plate XX). 



* The talagan (see p. 308). 



* This being lives in Binogan. His brothers are Gllen, Ilongbosan. Idodosan, 

 Iyangayang, and Sagolo. 



