[157] This raft is the Taltalabong, and is intended for the sons and servants of Kadaklan.

[158] It is customary to place a jar of basi under or near the house, so that Kadaklan may drink, before he reaches the function.  This offering had been neglected, hence his complaint.

[159] This is the case if a person is just acquiring the right to the ceremony.  If the family is already privileged to give this rite, it will occur in about three years, and Sayang will follow some four years later.

[160] See Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 171.

[161] See ibid., p. 24.

[162] In Patok, diwas is sung as a part of da-eng on the night of Libon.

[163] This is the same form as the “shield,” which hangs above the newborn infant (p. 312).

[164] See Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 177.

[165] On two occasions an old bedstead of Spanish type served instead of the frame.

[166] See p. 315.  In some towns the spirits are summoned at different times during the ceremony, as in Tangpap.

[167] See under Idasan, p. 309.

[168] Each with its dormitory for bachelors, and usually for unmarried girls.  See Jenks, The Bontoc Igorot, p. 49 (Manila, 1905).

[169] Combes, Historia de las islas de Mindanao (Madrid, 1667), translated by Blair and Robertson, Vol.  XL, p. 160; Vol.  XLVII, p. 300. Ling Roth, Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Vol.  II, p. 270, et seq.(London, 1896).

[170] For description of these villages, see Cole, Distribution of the Non-Christian Tribes of Northwestern Luzon (Am.  Anthropologist, Vol.  XI, p. 329).

[171] See Jenks, The Bontoc Igorot (Manila, 1906).

[172] Twenty years in the Philippines, p. 109 (London, 1853).

[173] See Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 8.

[174] See Cole and Laufer, Chinese Pottery in the Philippines (Field Museum of Natural History, Vol.  XII, No. 1).

[175] Despite frequent assertions to the contrary, the fire syringe is not used by the Tinguian.  It is found among the Tiagan Igorot, the similarity of whose name has doubtless given rise to the error.

[176] Head-hunting is widespread in this part of the world.  It is found in Assam, in the Solomon Islands, in Borneo, Formosa, and, it is said, was formerly practiced in Japan.  See Hodson (Folklore, June, 1909, p. 109); Rivers, History of Melanesian Society, Vol.  II, p. 259 (Cambridge, 1914); Hose and McDougall, Pagan Tribes of Borneo, Vols.  I-II (London, 1912); Shinji Ishii (Transactions Japan Soc. of London, Vol.  XIV, pp. 7, et seq.).

[177] See Worcester, The Non-Christian Tribes of Northern Luzon (Philippine Journal of Science, Vol.  I, p. 824, Manila, 1906).