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or two men to stand as witnesses to arrange the matter. Whenever one 

 of the married couple repents and makes a complaint to the old men or 

 principales of the town, they are punished with a fine of 1 carabao, 30 

 bundles of palay, 23 6 pesos, 1 jar of basi or tapuy," and this fine of the one 

 who repents will be eaten by the people and not given to one person only. 

 But if the married couple are quiet and live in harmony, the parents of 

 the woman or wife must kill a hog; they will also take some basi or tapuy 

 accompanying the hog's meat which they give to the parents of the hus- 

 band; the relatives of the husband's party gather together and come to 

 eat and drink ; and from the time when the wife's party gives these eatables 

 to the husband's party during a day and a night, and the time is rather 

 good and [there is] no earthquake no rainbow nor shower or even [though] 

 it rains heavily if [the weather be] not stormy and no chicken is caught 

 by a hawk in the town, and no person dies, and both parents of the married 

 couple always keep their fire alive, the married couple will then have rather 

 long lives and many children. They then perform the marriage and the 

 four parties of the wife and husband are gathered together and the number 

 of animals that are killed are 14 hogs and 18 chickens or hens. These must 

 not be less then the number needed; and these hogs and chickens should 

 be eaten at once in one day." There is another and last pamegyasan (feast 

 for wedding) , such as baquid, lapsag, sungeb, and quhiaoang, and the cere- 

 monies for these feasts are the killing of 10 hogs and 15 chickens; this is 

 performed for the same wedding. 



When anyone dies, the clothing we use must be arranged in the follow- 

 ing order: When an old man dies, his clothing will be a blanket, a coarse 

 G string and abongos, and if an old woman, the clothing will be lamina, 

 bayaong, bacguet, and a coarse blanket; but if a boy dies, his clothing might 

 be a coarse blanket; if a boy dies, his clothing must be a coarse G string 



23 Palay is unhusked rice; the same as paddy. 



24 A manuscript conserved in the Philippine Library, and entitled "Me- 

 moria aprocsimada del pais Ygorrote dependiente de la 1*. Division Militar, 

 escrita por los oficiales Dn. D. S. y D. C. G. en el mes de Febrero de 1843, 

 describes the drink basi as follows: "They (the Igorots) cook a quantity 

 of rice, pound up another like quantity, then mix the two thoroughly with 

 well-pressed ginger and with a quantity of hay that they call anuad. 

 After the abovesaid is thoroughly mixed, they place it in a jar, the mouth 

 of which they stop with leaves from some tree. Then they leave it under 

 the house for about three days in order that it may ferment. At the end 

 of that time they use it after putting water in it." Cf. Jenks [Pub. P. I. 

 Ethnol. Surv. (1905), 1, 144], who describes the making of basi quite 

 differently. According to Jenks's account, basi is a "fermented beverage 

 prepared from sugar cane," and no rice is used in its manufacture. The 

 authors of the manuscript seem to have confused basi with tapuy. For 

 the method used by the Bontocs in the manufacture of tapuy, see Jenks, 

 ut supra, 144. Tapuy appears to be much like the bubud of the Ifugaos. 

 [For a full account of the methods of manufacture and difference between 

 basi, tapuy, and bubud, see This Journal, Sec. A (1912), 7, 97-119.— Beyer.] 



" Compare with the eat-all feasts of the North American Indians de- 

 scribed so often by the Jesuit missionaries in their famous relations. The 

 two seem to have but one point in common; namely, the religious necessity 

 and significance of disposing of all of the food and drink. 



