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right-hand side of the way. At that moment, Datu Oleng, who 

 had just finished sotting- out the magic taming belonging to another 

 rite, overtook us and himself repeated the formula ever the last 

 nine kinudok. thus concluding the Awns. Be stood erect just hack 

 of the women and said : 



"You. Tagaruso, and all you Tagamaling, and the Tagasoro that 

 makes men dizzy, T bring this betel offering for you all; you must 

 not keep coming to our house, because I am giving- you areca-nuts 

 to stop that. And now. Pamulak Manobo, we ask you to protect 

 us from all the had huso, when you see them coming to us. To 

 you. .Malaki t'Olu k'Waig, we offer prayer because you are the 

 head of all the anito and must know all things.'' 1 



The kindly spirit that these conservative old people showed in 

 permitting a women of another race, a new acquaintance, to take 

 part in this private ceremony, was emphasized by many a little 

 token of friendliness. They would take my hand as I knelt beside 

 them, and ask me if it were not all "very good;'* and once Ikde 

 put her arms around me and asked if people performed rites like 

 this in America, and what would I do when I had learned all the 

 Bagobo ceremonies and other customs. 



After the final prayer we returned to the house, the old women 

 in advance, filing along in the moonlight, followed hy Oleng and 

 myself. No further ceremonies occured that evening. 



Three days later, the preliminary Awas was repeated as a brief 

 minor ceremony, fresh leaf-dishes being then laid down, simply 

 because the first had become dry. and the areca-nuts had withered 

 during the delay resulting from [do's absence and from the ominous 

 earthquake. I did not see this repeated ceremony, as at the same 

 time the rite of Taming was going on. but the words said by 

 Miyanda over the leaf-dishes were reported to me as follows: 



"You, Tigbanua* t" the North, and Tigbanua* of the Rattan, and 

 Tigbanua of the Wood, and Tigbanua of the Ground, 1 have pre- 

 pared areca-nuts for you all. while praying you not tit let us be 

 hurt, tor we want to have good health all of the time." 



Presumably this preliminary Awas was repeated at the first station 

 only, by the path Leading to the river. Here 1 afterward found 

 fourteen leaf-dishes, ami their disposition was explained to me as 

 follows. Eight had been consigned to the buso, through the Malaki 

 t'Olu k'Waig as intermediary, and six were for the gimokud (ghosts). 

 < H" the eight kinudok offered to the buso. two contained four areca- 



