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The animals are now cooked in yard, while a quantity of rice is 

 made ready in the house. During the preparation of the meal, the 

 musicians play incessantly, but as the food is brought out, they cease 

 and join the others in the feast. 



It is late in the afternoon before much activity is again manifest. 

 At first a few gather and begin to dance tadek; little by little others 

 come in until by nightfall the yard is full. Basi is served to all, and 

 soon, above the noisy laughter of the crowd, is heard the voice of 

 some leading man singing the daleng. The visitors listen respectfully 

 to the song and to the reply, then resume the music and dancing. After 

 a time a huge fire is built in the yard, and by the flickering light two 

 lines of boys and girls or older people will form to sing and dance 

 the daeng} 



On the morning of the seventeenth day, the men kill two pigs, 

 usually by chasing them through the brush and spearing them to death. 

 They are prepared in the usual way, and are placed, one in the balaua, 

 the other in the sogayob, where they are cut up. A bit of the flesh is 

 left in each structure, the fore half of one animal is carried into the 

 yard, but the rest is prepared for food. 



On an inverted rice-mortar, in the yard, is placed a jar of basi, 

 notched chicken feathers, and boar's tusks. The man and his wife are 

 summoned before this, are decorated as on the day before, and are in- 

 structed to dance three times around the mortar. While this is going 

 on, a shield and a rice winnower are leaned against each other so as 

 to form an arch on which lies a sheaf of rice. From the middle hangs 

 a piece of burning wood, while over all a fish net is thrown. As in a 

 former ceremony (cf. p. 347), the rice and fire represent the life of 

 some member of the family, which the evil spirits may desire to seize, 

 but they are prevented, since they are unable to pass through the 

 meshes of the net. Going to the half of the pig, which stands up- 

 right in a rice winnower, the medium places a string of beads — agate 

 and gold — around its neck and attaches bits of gold to its legs. Then 

 she places a thin stick in each nostril and pumps them alternately up 

 and down, as a smith would work his forge. After a little she removes 

 the plungers, and with them strokes the bodies of members of the 

 family. Near to the pig stands a dish of water in which the heart 

 is lying. The host goes to this, removes the heart, and placing it on 

 his head-axe, takes it in front of the animal, where it lies, while he 

 pumps the nostril-sticks up and down ten times. Meanwhile his wife 



1 In Patok, diwas is sung as a part of da-eng on the night of Llbon. 



