to cook its neck and intestines without salt.  These are then divided into nine parts, are placed in dishes, and are carried to the spirit house in the field.  At the end of the second day, the feathers of the fowl are stuck into the sides of the structure, and the spirits are entreated to grant a good harvest and health for the workers.  The dishes are then returned to the village, and on the following morning the women may begin cutting.

When the rice is ready to be stored, the Palpalaem [218] ceremony is held in honor of the spirit of the granary.  Vines and shrubs [219] are tied to each supporting post of the granary and above the door, while a bit of sikag is also hidden inside a bundle of rice, which has been placed at each corner pole.  Near one post is a small pig with its head toward the east, and over it the medium recites a diam.  As usual, the animal is killed, and its blood mixed with rice is offered to the spirits.  A part of the flesh is wrapped in banana leaves, and a bundle is buried at the foot of each post.  The skull is cooked, and after being cleaned, is hung up inside the roof.  The rest of the meat is cooked, and is served with rice to the little company of friends who have gathered.  Each guest is also given a few stalks of the rice from the bundles at the corner posts.

Just before the new rice is placed in the granary, a jar of basi is placed in the center of the structure, and beside it a dish filled with oil and the dung of worms.  Five bundles of palay are piled over these, and the whole is presented to the spirit, who will now allow the rice to multiply until it is as plentiful as the dung.

In Buneg and nearby villages, all of which are strongly influenced by immigrants from the Cagayan valley, a small clay house known as lablabon or adug is placed with the rice, and from time to time offerings are put in them for the spirit who multiplies the rice (Plate XXIX).

Certain restrictions always apply to the granary.  It may never be opened after dark, for evil spirits are certain to enter, and the crop will vanish quickly.  It can be opened only by a member of the family “whom the spirit knows;” and should another attempt to remove the grain, sickness or blindness will befall him.  So rigorously is this enforced that a bride never opens her husband’s granary until he has presented her with a string of beads, which she wears about her neck to identify her.  It is further necessary that she receive a similar gift before she eats of his rice, otherwise she will become ill.  However, this does not apply to others, even strangers being fed without this gift being made.

A custom which formerly prevailed, but is now falling into disuse, was for the bride and groom to visit the family fields, where the youth cut a little grass along the dividing ridges.  He then took up a bit of earth on his head-axe, and both tasted of it, “so that the ground would yield them good harvests, and they would become wealthy,”