[95] In Manabo the wife is covered at night with a white blanket, but during the day she wears it bandoleer fashion over one shoulder.  In Ba-ak a white blanket with black border is used in a similar way.  If the wife has neglected her husband during his illness, his relatives may demand that she be punished by having a second blanket placed over her, unless she pays them a small amount.  It sometimes occurs that the Lakay or old men impose both fine and punishment.  In Likuan the blanket is placed over the corpse and the wife.

[96] See Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 180.

[97] This is still the case among the Apayao who live to the north of the Tinguian (Cole, Am.  Anthropologist, Vol. ii, No. 3, 1909, p. 340).  The custom is reflected in the folk-tales (Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 190; cf. also p. 372).

[98] The writer has known of instances, where towns were deserted following an epidemic of smallpox, and the dead were left unburied in the houses.  Such instances are unusual even for this dread disease, and the funeral observances usually expose large numbers of the people to infection.

[99] In San Juan only thirty strokes are given.

[100] In Manabo a rectangular hole is dug to about five feet, then at right angles to this a chamber is cut to receive the body.  This is cut off from the main grave by a stone.  A similar type of grave is found in Sumatra (Marsden, History of Sumatra, 3d ed., p. 287, London, 1811).

[101] According to this author, the Tinguian put the dried remains of their dead in subterranean tombs or galleries, six or seven yards in depth, the entrance being covered with a sort or trap door (La Gironiere, Twenty Years in the Philippines, p. 115, London, 1853).

[102] Op. cit., p. 121.

[103] As distinguished from those of the dead.

[104] Several times the writer has seen friends place money inside the mat, “so that the spirit may have something to spend.”

[105] The large spirit house, built only by well-to-do families having the hereditary right.

[106] In the folk tales a very different method of disposing of the dead is indicated (Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, pp. 23-24, and note).

[107] Among the Tuaran Dusun of British North Borneo, a fire is built near the mat on which the corpse lies, to protect the body from evil spirits, who are feared as body snatchers (Evans, Jour.  Ant.  Inst., Vol.  XLVII, 1917, p. 159).

[108] These consist of dishes, food, tobacco, fire-making outfit, weapons, clothing, and the like.