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and the Awas were arranged to be held twenty-four hours later 

 than the time of the shock. 



Accordingly, the next morning, in preparation for the main Awas, 

 old Kaba made twenty-three little figures of men, called tingoto, 

 some of which he carved from the white wood of magabadbad, and 

 others he shaped out from its green stem. The manikins were 

 not over one inch or one and one-half inches long. The women 

 made the leaf-dishes ; and at noon Sawad came in bringing a 

 cluster of fresh areca-nuts, which, he said, he had gotten for the 

 Awas. The rite was performed early in the afternoon, in the 

 kitchen {abu), 191 near the door. A large number of the Bagobo 

 observed the ceremony. Oleng sat on the floor, the little images 

 laid in order before him. Of the twenty-three tingoto, eleven were 

 of the white wood, and twelve were of the green stem of maga- 

 badbad. Ten of the white figures were placed in a row, with one 

 a little apart from the rest; while eleven of the green figures were 

 laid in a row, and one green figure by itself. Oleng then said a 

 short ritual over the twenty-three manikins. 



"Now I lay you here, little tingoto, to make you just like slaves 

 to us. We give you to the bad sickness and to the buso in place 

 of our own bodies; 102 and now the buso and the diseases will not 

 hurt us, because we are offering them these tingoto. Let the buso 

 think about these little human fio-ures and not hurt us. Now all 

 of you, little tingoto, you must keep us from being sick." 



At the close of this recitation, Miyanda placed six areca-nuts at 

 the feet of the ten white figures, and said: 



"I pray to you, Buso, and to you, Sickness; and I lay down 

 those little men to make you kind to us. We give you these ten 

 figures so that our own bodies will not be hurt by disease, and 

 we give you these areca-nuts so that you will not do harm to us." 



At a later hour, the tingoto were taken out to a retired place 

 uinler the trees to the northeast of the Long House and laid 

 beside the narrow trail, and with the figures were placed six leaf- 

 dishes containing areca-nuts. Near the ten white figures were 



191 The word abu has two meanings: (1) kitchen, the room that contains the three fire- 

 stones and the native hearth. In the Long House at Mati, it was the first room that 

 one entered from the north door; (2) In a ceremonial sense, the abu includes the two 

 rooms farthest north. The rites on the first and second nights of the Ginum are held 

 in the abu; on the third and fourth nights, in the sonor (the whole house). 



192 See Charms and Magical Kites, Part III. 



