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ten and eleven o'clock. The priestess sang in sharp staccato style 

 on two notes (CDC ^ _ ^ short, long, short) in a manner totally 

 different from her customary monotonous intoning. She poured 

 forth her words fluently, needing little of the usual prompting and 

 encouragement from Miyanda. The subject matter concerned my- 

 self and my efforts to become acquainted with the various pro- 

 cesses of Bagobo handiwork — the twisting of leglets. the tying 

 of patterns in cloth, the dyeing of hemp, and so forth. Frequently 

 Miyanda would exclaim. "Katig kanun." (She knows that, she has 

 learned that). The next morning Singan told me that all the 

 Bagobo were very sorry that 1 was not going to stay with them; 

 thai Malaki t'Olu k'Waig favored the Americans; that when I went 

 away they would sell their things to me; that if 1 would put upon 

 the balekat some bells or a balinutung 322 or some white cloth, I 

 would find it easy to buy the Bagobo things 1 might wish for. 

 These friendly approaches followed a question of mine as to what 

 she had said in the seance of the previous night. Fumbling her 

 feet and smiling in a timid uncertain fashion, she asked me whether 

 I loved the .Malaki t'Olu k'Waig. and on my replying in the 

 affirmative she looked pleased and repeated that 1 was to put on 

 tlio balekat a few little bells or a balinutung. 



Soon after we had lain down to Bleep on the night of August 9, 

 Singan began to cough and to gasp; and soon, with ejaeulatory 

 speeches and chants, she entered into her character of medium for 

 a brief seance, covering perhaps twenty minutes. 



First, the Malaki t'Olu k'Waig spoke as follows, referring to the 

 girls who had been pounding rice until late that evening: "1 hear many 

 women pounding rice, and I am asking when the Ginum will be held. 

 Now 1 tell vow women that since you have begun the binavu ; - ! you 

 must keep it up, and pound rice all the time until the Ginum opens." 



Next the Tolus ka Balekat gave a warning to Oleng in the 

 following words: u Yon must take care of your body because you 

 are getting old, and by and by when you grow very weak, you 

 will die quick." Replying, the old datu said: "1 want yon to keep 

 mi- from sickness all the time. hut tell me what kind of sickness 



will hurt me." The Tolus ka Balekal answered: "Your sickness 



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comes from the I'.M.t of the skv. from the horizon." 



121 A closed armlet or leglet, rust in brass or agong-metaJ from a. wax mold. 

 113 The pounding of rice in tin' mortar. 



