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This ceremony is called "ka-fo'-kab," and the man who performs it is known by the title of "in-ka-fa'." The Igorot granary, the a-lang', is a "hip-roofed" structure about 8 feet long, 5 wide, 4 feet high at the sides and 6 at the ridgepole. Its sides are built of heavy pine planks, which are inserted in grooved horizontal timbers, the planks being set up vertically.
In the path the owner of the field builds a tiny fire beside which he stands while the harvesters sit in silence. The owner says: "So-mi-ka-ka' pa-ku' ta-mo i-sa'-mi sik'-a kin-po-num' nan a-lang'," which, freely rendered, means, "Palay, when we carry you to the granary, increase greatly so that you will fill it."
The building is rodent proof, and, because of its wide, projecting roof and the fact that it sets off the earth, it is practically moisture proof. Most palay is stored in the granaries in the small bunches tied at harvest. The a-lang' is carefully closed again after each sementera crop has been put in.
Maize and millet are generally stored in the dwelling, in the second and third stories, since not enough of either is grown to fill an a-lang', it is said. Camotes are sometimes stored in the granary after the harvest of the irrigated fields. Often they are put away in the kubkub, the two compartments at either end of the sleeping room on the ground floor of the dwelling.
She looks as though she never had stood erect and never would stand erect on two feet. Thus she toils day after day from early morning till dusk that she and her family may eat. Storing No palay is carried to the a-lang', the separate granary building, or to the dwelling for the purpose of being stored until the entire crop of the sementera is harvested.
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