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A common form of invitation is for the girl to steal a man's pipe, his pocket hat, or even the breechcloth he is wearing. They say one seldom recovers his property without going to the, o'-lag for it. When a girl recognizes her pregnancy she at once joyfully tells her condition to the father of the child, as all women desire children and there are few permanent marriages unblessed by them.
Though the o'-lag is primarily the sleeping place of all unmarried girls, in the mind of the people it is, with startling consistency, the mating place of the young people of marriageable age.
The o'-lag is built where the girls desire it and is said to be commonly located in places accessible to the men; this appears true to one going over the pueblo with this statement in mind. The life in the o'-lag does not seem to weaken the boys or girls or cause them to degenerate, neither does it appear to make them vicious.
He is usually welcomed by the girl, for there may yet be possibilities of her becoming his permanent wife. A man whose wife is pregnant, however, seldom visits the o'-lag, because he fears that, if he does, his wife's child will be prematurely born and die.
Without attempt at remonstrance the father gives a rice sementera to the child when it is 6 or 7 years old, for that is the price fixed by the group conscience for deserting a girl with a child. It is not usual for a married man to go to the o'-lag, though a young man may go if one of his late mates is still alone.
Mageo, with her twenty families, also has two o'-lag, but both are situated in Pudpudchog. The o'-lag is the only Igorot building which has received a specific name, all others bear simply the class name. In Sagada and some nearby pueblos, as Takong and Agawa, the o'-lag is said to he called If-gan'. Mr.
Unlike the fawi and pabafunan, the o'-lag has no adjoining court, and no shady surroundings. It is built to house the occupants only at night. The o'-lag is not so distinctly an ato institution as the pabafunan and fawi. Ato Ungkan never had an o'-lag. The demand is not so urgent as that of some ato, since there are only thirteen families in Ungkan. The girls occupy o'-lag of neighboring ato.
There are no marriageable girls in any of these three ato now, and the small girls occupy near-by o'-lag. These three o'-lag will be rebuilt when the girls are large enough to cook food for the men who build. The o'-lag of Amkawa is in Buyayyeng near the o'-lag of the latter; it is there by choice of the occupants.
Occupying nearly all the floor space are boards about 4 feet long and from 8 to 14 inches wide; each board is a girl's bed. They are placed close together, side by side, laid on a frame about a foot above the earth. One end, where the head rests, is slightly higher that the other, while in most o'-lag a pole for a foot rest runs along the foot of the beds a few inches from them.
The o'-lag is the dormitory of the girls in an a'-to from the age of about 2 years until they marry. It is a small stone and mud-walled structure, roofed with grass, in which a grown person can seldom stand erect. It has but a single opening a door some 30 inches high and 10 inches wide.
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