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He is dying. 

 Make saddles: play 

 ( Hear the brush ; 

 Hew down trees; 

 Burn the field ; 

 Pile up branches; 

 Lop off branches ; 

 Burn it over. 

 Plant the rice; 

 Hedge the altar; 23u 



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Weave at loom. 

 Burn the meadow; 

 Hunt the hoar. 

 Climb for cocuanuts. 



Wear good clothes. 

 Cook food : 

 Make leaf-dishes; 

 Dance and cook. 

 Get wood for the fire; 

 Bring water; fetch leaves; 

 Get water in buckets, 

 liaise the bamboos, 

 Balekayo 240 and laya 

 Get tamanag 248 wood; 

 Manga, 243 lanzone,- 44 

 Durhin,- 45 areca; 

 Pound natuck. 2 *" 

 Build the house: 



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GlNDAYA 



(A part of the Gindaya chanted on the opening night of Ginum.) 

 "God the Protector, 246 " the All-knowing, come down here and tell us, you 

 who have been there, the story of the bird far away in the mountains. You 

 have heard the tale of the youngest nestling of limokon, 24 " perched on a 

 golden tree on the farther side of the mountains of Baringan, 248 concealed 

 under the branches, finding at the topmost point fresh branches pointing 

 toward the sunset, waving toward the dawn 



159 The magic plants that are placeil around the hut-shrine at rice-planting. Some of 

 the references are anticipatory of clearing ami planting, as the Ginum is often held 

 in January. 



"»Thc textiles exhibited at the festival are hung from a frame of light bamboo, 

 called balekayo. See p. 136. 



2 * ' The agongs are suspended from rods of laya wood. 



'■"" A white, porous, highly inflammable wood, much used for kindling. 



: "• 3 Mangifera indica L.: a large and delicious fruit having a yellow skin, a long pit, 

 and a juicy pulp. Foreigners call it "manggo," bnt natives give ng in this word as a single 

 phonetic element. 



*** Lansium domeslicum: a small fruit with translucent white pulp having an acid flavor. 



**•'• Durio zibeihinus D.C.: A good-sized fruit having a heavy rind covered with prickles, 

 and a very soft, cream-colored pulp, which has a pleasently pungent flavor, but an 

 offensive smell. The durian is a favorite fruit with the natives. 



2 ""Sago, which is extracted from the sago palm, pounded and boiled to a jelly. 

 Bagobo mothers feed their babies freely with naiuck. 



, * e * This is Duma Tvngo, the "god who keeps the people." Duma sometimes means 

 "wife," sometimes "companion." In the Long House at Tubison, there was an altar 

 dedicated to Tango, and there is a question as to whether the two divinities are identical. 



'* 7 The omen pigeon. 



"'Fabulous mountains of the ulit, the romantic tale. 



