The next visitor was Sanadan, the spirit who owns and guards the deer and wild pig.  Up to this time the people had been mildly interested in the arrivals, but when this important being appeared, the men at once became alert; they told him of their troubles in the hunts, of the scarcity of deer, and urged him to send more of them to Mt.  Posoey, where they were accustomed to hunt.  He offered much good advice concerning the methods of hunting, but refused to take any action regarding the game on the nearby mountain, for, he said, the spirit Dapwanay who owns Posoey was watching the game there.  Just before he departed, he called to the headmen, “I am very rich and very bold.  I am not afraid to go anywhere.  I can become the sunset sky.  I am going to Asbinan in Kalaskigan to have him make me a shoe of gold.  To-morrow you must not use any of the things you have had out-of-doors, but you may make use of them when you build the taltalabong.”

The last spirit to come that night was Ablalansa who keeps guard over the sons of Kadaklan.  He paused only for a drink and to tell the people that America was very near to the place, where the big birds live who eat people.

It was midnight when the medium informed us that no more spirits would come that evening, and we went to rest.

About six o’clock the next morning, the women began the ceremonial pounding of the rice known as kitong (cf. p. 329) in the yard, while one of the mediums went to the bound pig lying in the dwelling and recited a diam as she stroked its side; she also poured a little basi through the slits in the floor for the use of any visiting spirits.  While the women were thus engaged, the men were busy constructing spirit houses in the yard.  Of greatest importance was the tangpap (Plate XXVII), a small bamboo structure with a slanting roof, resting on four poles, and an interwoven bamboo floor fastened about three feet above the ground. [152] Near one of the house poles a funnel-shaped basket was tied, and in it was set a forked stick, within the crotch of which was a little floor and roof, the whole forming a resting place for the Igorot spirits of Talegteg.  The pala-an needed a few repairs, and two of the old men looked after these, while others made two long covered bamboo benches which might be used either by visiting men or spirits. [153] Four long bamboo poles were set in the ground, and a roof placed over them to form the bang-bangsal, a shelter always provided for the spirits of Soyau.

By ten o’clock all was in readiness, and the people then gathered in the dwelling, where the mediums began summoning the spirits.  The first to arrive was Omgbawan, a female spirit whose conversation ran as follows:  “I come now because you people ought to make this ceremony.  I did not come last night, for there were many spirits here, and I was busy.  You people who build tangpap must provide all the necessary things, even though they are costly.  It is good that the Americans are here.  I never talked with one before.”