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It usually extends from below the navel to near the knees. The women sometimes wear the braided-string bejuco belt, i-kit', worn by the men. The lu-fid' and the wa'-kis are the extent of woman's ordinary clothing. For some months after the mother gives birth to a child she wears an extra wa'-kis wrapped tightly about her, over which the skirt is worn as usual.
A married woman is buried in a kay-in', a particular skirt made for burial in Titipan, and a white blue-bordered waistcloth or la-ma. In the coffin are placed a burial girdle, wa'-kis, also made in Titipan, a blue-and-white-striped blanket called bay-a-ong', and the to-chong', the small cloth or bark over the hair.
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