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who sit in a group on the floor, and decide matters that come up 

 for consideration between the two families of the wedded pair, such 

 as the exchange of suitable presents. 



At break of dawn on the second morning, the agongs are beaten 

 {1?agong-go\ and there is dancing (sumayo) for an hour or two. 



When the sun is an hour high, — about seven o'clock, the 

 ceremonies of the day are started under way. There is first an ex- 

 change of. gifts between the bride and her husband — a ceremony 

 known as pabulase. She gives him a good textile made up into a 

 panapisan, which she may have worn for a few days or more, 

 at pleasure, since she took it from the loom. His gift to her is 

 commonly a wide, solid brass armlet, or an entire set of bracelets 

 for one arm or for both. A set, or hiu/c : for one arm may consist 

 of forty to sixty rings of brass cut from heavy wire, some of which 

 are plain, some punched in decorative patterns. Two or three fine 

 cast bracelets usually form part of such a set. There is no cere- 

 monial restriction on the disposal of these marriage tokens; they 

 may be kept or sold, at the wish or the need of the young people. 



Soon after the exchange of presents, the rite of t/</i/<<in<i takes 

 place. The bride furnishes one saucer or small deep plate, of white 

 crockery, and her husband brings another. Both of these dishes, 

 called pingan, must be old ones. The pingan are placed with ritual 

 words, and they remain for an indefinite time in their place below 

 the edge of the sloping roof. Areca-nuts and buyo-leaf are put 

 into the dishes for the god Tigyama, with a prayer to be kept 

 from sickness. This entire rite has an important magical value for 

 the prevention of disease and for the cure of sickness, and hence 

 is called (//a/. 



The gift to the old man, or woman, who officiates is termed 

 ikut the same name as that given to an old article reserved 



for the gods, for the priest's fee lias a religious significance akin 

 to that associated with a gift to the gods. The bride and her 

 husband present, jointly, two or three articles of some slight value: 

 a spear and a piece of textile, or a shirt simply embroidered, to- 

 gether with a bracelet of brass, or a few hand-cast bells. The 

 giving of ikut closes the ceremony, usually at about nine o'clock 



in the morning. 



During the day or the night following the wedding, there is 

 held a meeting of the old men, called gokutn bayako. This is a 

 form of assembly characterized by antiphonal singing interspersed 



