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for the mouths were not cut until early in the morning of the 

 last day of the festival. 



The old women. Miyanda and Singan, performed the Lulub, 

 assisted by younger women. They rubbed magic leaves over the 

 surface of the bamboo joints and then washed them in the stream. 

 Afterwards, according to the account I received, one of the old 

 women carried a joint of lava bamboo to a place south of where 

 the Pamalugu had taken place. She stuck the bane, or joint, either 

 in the earth at the edge of the stream or in the bed of the shallow 

 water, and said these words. "Now I place this bane of laya for 

 you, Tigbanua Balagan, and for you, Tigbanua Waig. Remember 

 this, when we are trying to draw water and to pray to you. And 

 you, Gimokud mantu (new) and Gimokud tapi 204 (old), do not envy 

 us while we have our Ginum, because you have gone to the Great 

 Country. I think you did not want to stay on earth any longer." 



At the conclusion of the rite, the old women taught the girls 

 that they must not play so much while the house was full of guests. 



Ceremony of Sonar, or Offering on the Agongs of Manufac- 

 tured Products. Soon after our return from the river, preparations 

 began for the next ceremony — the laying of gifts upon an agong- 

 altar, with accompanying rites. Devotions are directed, at this 

 office, toward Mandarangan, the Malaki t'Olu k'Waig, certain anito, 

 and the agongs themselves that are addressed as sonaran. In the 

 ceremony of Sonar, just as in Pamalugu, there is an intention of 

 securing from the gods both health and wealth ; yet in the lavations 

 the thought of purification is dominant, while at the offerings on 

 the agongs the desire to grow rich is stressed. 



It was toward the middle of the forenoon when we came back 

 from Pamalugu, and there was an interval before the following 

 ceremonies. Four new bamboo prayer-stands had been made by 

 Malik early in the day, and these tambara were now ready to be 

 used at Sonar, the bowls being wedged in the split balekayo in the 

 usual manner ; but there were many other things to be gathered 

 together by men and women who had already had a full morning. 



From the frame on which the agongs hung, three of the smaller 

 instruments were taken from the upper row, and one of larger size 



204 The term ceremonially used to characterize souls that have been long dead is tapi, 

 and this same adjective is applied to old manufactured objects. An aged person is called 

 in life tvgul, never tapi, like an old thing. 



