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In the lead is the host armed with spear, shield, and head-axe; next comes the medium carrying the bamboo rack talapitap like a shield, and the split bamboo dakidak as a spear; next is an old woman with a coconut shell dish, then another with a bundle of burning rice straw; behind her is the wife followed by a man who drags the dead dog.
The next duty is to construct a woven bamboo frame known as talapitap on which the spirits are fed, and to prepare two sticks known as dakidak, one being a thin slender bamboo called bolo, the other a reed. These are split at one end, so they will rattle when struck on the ground, and thus call the attention of the spirit for whom food is placed on the rack.
When she was planting, the spirit entered her body again and taught her how to plant. When she reaped the sugar-cane and rice, she began to make Sayang. The spirit Kaboniyan went again into her to teach her how to make Sayang. Take lono and bolo as big as a finger and make dakidak, and put a jar with water upstairs in the house. Dance daeng for ten nights.
Soon the month arrived in which they said they would build balaua, and they summoned the old woman Alokotán, to start the balaua. Not long after they sent to get bolo and lono with which to make the dakidak and talapitap. When it became afternoon the old woman Alokotán began to sing da-eng and the next night they sang da-eng again.
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