HARVEST FEAST OF THE KIANGAN IFUGAO. 89 



in the language for north and south. If a Kiangan man wishes to say 

 north, he names some remote place toward the north, as ud Banawul, 

 toward Banaue, a village in a northerly direction from Kiangan. 



Invocation of the makalun. Monmakalun. — The makalun,^^ the spir- 

 its that make men forget, that remind or suggest to them, are next 

 invoked. The makalun may work a man great injury by causing him 

 to forget the debts that are owed him, to lose spear or bolo, and so on. 

 "The makalun are like police, also," say the Ifugaos, "they bring other 

 spirits to the feast." This simile is perfectly clear when it is under- 

 stood that a very small part of the work of an Ifugao policeman consists 

 in preserving the peace, and that by far the gi'eater part of his work 

 consists in calling cabecillas ^° and kadangyan for consultation ; in carry- 

 ing instructions to foremen on the trails; carrying the mails and the 

 like. The makalun are messengers of the other spirits and of those 

 men who know how to call on them in the right way. As it was ex- 

 plained to me, the makalun, when sent to call spirits to a feast, notify 

 the chief spirit in each of the various villages of spirits. This chief 

 spirit notifies the others that such and such an Ifugao is making a 

 harvest feast, and that such and such spirits may go to it. An old man 

 told me that the makalun tells the chief or cabecilla of the spirits some- 

 thing like this: 



The men are harvesting. Let us go to the granary of Kadamon and Gagaya. 

 We will drink rice wine. They will give us their pigs, chickens, and rice. We 

 will chew betel nuts."° 



Some of the makalun most frequently invoked are : Ud Lagod (in 

 the East) Tayaban,^^ nak Balud;^^ Tayaban, nak Tagudan; Taya- 

 ban, nak Manguli. Ud Kabunian (in the Sky World) Tayaban, nak 

 Dalogdogan; Tayaban, nak Balitian; Tayaban, nak Amkidul; Bugan, 

 nak Numbian; Bugan, nak Balitian; Bugan, nak Abugai. Ud Dalom 

 (in the Under World) Tayaban, nak Ginita; Tayaban, nak Bahinag; 

 Tayaban, nak Litnak. The number of makalun and the list of spirits 

 that may be called upon to serve as makalun, varies considerably at 

 different feasts. This is the most variable, and in fact the only grqatly 

 variable, feature of the harvest feast as performed in Kiangan villages. 



"Makalun: ma, able; kal, word, speech; makalun, one who is able to tell or 



to summon. 



" Spanish word used in the Philippines in the sense of chief. 



'" Mon-ani di Ipuwao. Ume-tako hi kalumaga di Kondamon ya 



Are agents o£ harvesting the human beings. Will-go-we the granary of Kodamon and 



Gagaya; Manginum-tako baya. Idat-tako babui, ya manok ya page-da. 



Gagaya; ■Will-be-agents-of-drlnkin'g-wine. Will give us the pig, the chickens, the rice-their, 



Monmom ma-takn. 

 Will-be-agents-of-ehewing-betel-we. 



^ Tayaban. See under heading "The Tayabans" of this article. 

 ^ Nak, son of. 



