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made that same day, immediately after the bamboos were filled 

 with green sprays. Like the bamboos, the four garong were orna- 

 mented with festoons of curled shavings peeled off in regular 

 clusters on the surface of the vessel, two garong having nine 

 clusters of shavings, and the other two, eight (dusters. Two of 

 these vessels were intended for drink offerings, and two for food 

 offerings. At the beginning of the ceremony we are now discussing, 

 the two garong destined for drink offerings were filled with sugar 

 cane liquor, poured from the balanan by one of the young men 

 who were serving as altar attendants. From one of the garong 

 (now full of balabba), the sacred liquor was poured into two bowls 

 that stood in front of Ido, between him and the sacrificial food. 

 The other garong full of liquor was elevated to the shelf of the 

 balekat. To do this, one of the attendants climbed up from the 

 south wall and then along the roof, until he was close to the south 

 end of the shelf of the balekat. The vessel was then handed up 

 to him by Ido(?) and placed on the shelf, where it remained 

 throughout the following rites. 



The more distinctively sacrificial part of the ceremony opened 

 with the stirring of the sugar cane wine in the two bowls. For 

 this purpose two spoons, known as barakas, were used, the spoons 

 being made of small sections of bulla leaf twisted to the shape of 

 bowl and handle, and the stem-handle tied in a knot. The larger 

 spoon had tied to its handle a red blossom of kalimping, and the 

 smaller spoon was adorned with a scarlet blossom that had tasseled 

 petals. Ido dipped into the bowl of balabba on his right hand the 

 smaller spoon, and, having taken it out with a little of the brown 

 liquor, he laid it with the liquor in it beside the howl. In the 

 same manner, lie dipped the larger spoon into the left-hand howl, 

 took it out and laid it, holding a few drops of liquor, beside the 

 left-hand bowl. lie then stirred the balabba in the bowl tit the 

 fight, with a small spray of manangid, and thereupon, either Ido 

 or Olenff, with a second siirav of manaiurid, stirred the contents of 



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tile bowl to the left. 



The Gurrugga^ or worship, was then performed by Datu Oleng, 

 who. in his priestly character, laid before the Tolus ka Balekat the 

 flesh of a victim slain in sacrifice, together with those selected products 

 of the field and fruit of the trees that are most highly valued by 



the Bagobo rice and cocoanut and areca-nuts and the precious 

 wine extracted from sugar cane. In his right hand, Oleng held a 



