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harvesters, some of it is distributed to he carried lioiue or cooked at will. 

 Each of the priests gets a good piece. A most striking feature is the 

 lack of variation in the process of cutting up and distributing the pig. 

 The feet are first cut off. The children eagerly contend for these, and 

 only the presence of the elders prevents them from coming to blows. 

 Then the skin and fascia over the belly are cut off, the belly is opened 

 and the entrails are taken out. The gall bladder is inspected for an 

 omen. If it is full and dark — as it nearly always is, for the pig has not 

 eaten for some eighteen to twenty hours — all is well."^ The chest of 

 the pig then is opened and the- blood poured out. Some of the clotted 

 blood is often snatched and eaten by the feasters, for they have fasted 

 since night of the previous day. The triangular fascia under the lower 

 jaw is cut off, the head severed from the body, and the body cut into 

 sufficiently small pieces to go into pots. 



The following is the apportionment of the parts of the pig : The head 

 goes to the owner, for when the flesh has been eaten, the slcull will be 

 hung up outside the granary; the feet, pancreas, genitals, bladder, and 

 a portion of the liver, to supply the children not already supplied with 

 some part of the animal ; the tail "^ to a child or to a man or woman 

 who may desire it; the skin and fascia of the belly, the skin and the 

 fascia under the lower Jaw, the heart, and the lungs, to the cook, as pay 

 for his services ; the intestines, a highly prized portion, go to the youths 

 who carry the rice to the granary; the remainder is divided among the 

 harvesters and feasters. 



I have never seen this allotment varied except in one case. In that 

 instance, the cook, in cutting off the abdominal fascia, which rightfully 

 fell to his lot, cut off some short ribs with it. The bystanders protested 

 that the cook was taking more than his just portion and that he was, in 

 fact, a pig himself. 



Continence and the fast during harvest time. — While it usually takes 

 only one or two days for a family, -with the aid of relatives, neighbors, 

 and the people who come down from the higher villages, to cut their rice, 

 it is generally five weeks or more from the time the first family begins 

 harvesting until the last one in the village has finished. During this 



" After the examination, the gall bladder is twisted on a stick, and fixed under 

 the floor of the granary. If by any chance it were empty and dark, it would be 

 necessary to kill another pig. 



" The tip of the tail, if it be white, is worn by a girl or woman in the hair 

 as an ornament; and by a man at the end of the strings by which the neck 

 ornaments are tied on. See the tips so worn by the dancers in the picture of the 

 blanket dance. Plate VI, fig. 1. 

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