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It does not understand war. Pretty soon some pueblo will take your head." And the pinteng is supposed to put it into the mind of some pueblo to get the head of that particularly cruel man. The friends of a beheaded person take his body home from the scene of death. It remains one day sitting in the dwelling.
A fish feast follows for the evening meal. The next day the mang-ay'-yu ceremony occurs. At that time the men of the ato, go near the place where their companion lost his head and ask the beheaded man's spirit, the pinteng, to return to their pueblo. Pl. CXXXVI shows the burial of a beheaded corpse in Banawi in April, 1903.
No small children's skulls can be found in Bontoc, though some other head-hunters take the heads even of infants. In fact, the men of Bontoc say that babes and children up to about 5 years of age are not killed by the head-hunter. If one should take a child's head he would shortly be called to fate by some watchful pinteng in language as follows: "Why did you take that babe's head?
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