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from the lower row. The four agongs were placed on the floor in 

 the middle room, not in contact with one another, but close enough 

 together to form an unbroken square. At one side of this temporary 

 altar, the bamboo prayer-stands were laid down in such manner 

 that the four bowls formed a little square, while the rods of bale- 

 kayo lay stretched out between (or beside) the agongs. The large 

 agong, and two of the smaller ones, were placed with their convex 

 sides up, so as to give a base on which material offerings could 

 be piled; while the fourth instrument was put concave side up. 

 like a big bowl which might function as a sort of font. 



The ceremonies that followed may be briefly summarized as fol- 

 lows, though there was no well-marked line of separation between 

 the several acts, for two might be going on at the same time: (a) 

 the offering of manufactured products to the gods; (b) the ablutions 

 called Sagmo;(c)the visitation of anito; (d) the rites with balabba. 



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Datu Ido sat down on the floor, in front of the agongs and 

 facing the east. During the first part of the proceedings, Datu 

 Oleng sat perched on the high guest-bed and watched all that 

 went on, but gave no directions. At once the people began to bring 

 their nice things to Ido, who put them on the agongs or on the 

 floor close to the altar. In a few cases, the gifts were placed by 

 the owners themselves. Old Miyanda took the initiative and put 

 on one of the agongs a pair of man's trousers (mtrotir). Then came 

 a long delay, during which everybody went about his ordinary 

 occupations. The men chewed betel; the girls kept on putting 

 stitch after stitch on the fine embroidery decorating garments 

 to he worn at the dance on the following night. In the interval, 

 Datu Ido and Miyanda, with a few others, talked over the proper 

 disposition to he made of the things destined for the agong altar. 



Then Miyanda went to another part of the house, and returned 

 with an armful of hemp skirts, or sarongs, woven in figures and 

 called by the Bagobo panapisan. She brought, also, women's cotton 

 waists, and necklaces of heads in solid colors, green, white and 



vellow. all of which articles she placed together on one agong. 



In the meantime, Ido had fetched a finely-decorated waist, a long 

 panapisan of Bila-an make, a number of pieces of Visayan textiles 

 and Imported prints that had been secured at the coast and some 



