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Updated: June 5, 2025
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.
Three of the men bringing fertilizer are entirely nude except for their girdles, since they ford the river with their loads between the sementera and Bontoc and do not care to wet their breechcloths; the other man wears a bladder bag hanging from his girdle as an apron.
The mountain-side sementera for camotes, maize, millet, and beans is prepared simply by being scratched or picked an inch or two deep with the woman's camote stick, the su-wan'. If the plat is new the grass is burned before the scratching occurs, but if it is cultivated annually the surface seldom has any care save the shallow work of the su-wan'; in fact, the surface stones are seldom removed.
The most quiet babe, or, if they are equally quiet, the larger one, is said to be "a-tin-fu-yang'," and is at once placed in an olla and buried alive in a sementera near the dwelling. On the 13th of April, 1903, the wife of A-li-koy', of Samoki, gave birth to twin babies.
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.
The old men and women, almost always unsightly and ugly, who go to the sementera only to guard and not to toil, come slowly and feebly home, often picking their way with a staff. There is much laughing and coquetting among the young people. A boy dashes by with several girls in laughing pursuit, and it is not at all likely that he escapes them with all his belongings.
The gall was found to be almost entirely exposed on the liver clearly the woman had lied. She looked at the all-knowing gall and nodded her acceptance of the verdict. If the gall had been hidden by the upper lobe of the liver, the verdict would not have been sustained. If a person steals palay, the injured party may take a sementera from the offender.
The sementera is about 20 by 50 feet, or about 1,000 square feet, and lies in the midst of the large valley area between Bontoc and Samoki. It is on the Samoki side of the river, but is the property of a Bontoc family. There are two groups of soil turners in the sementera three men in one, and two unmarried women, an older married woman, and a youth in the other.
The total annual expense of maintaining the sementera as a productive property is, therefore, equivalent to 1.75 pesos. This leaves 8.25 pesos net profit when the annual expense is deducted from the annual gross profit.
Each family has the Mang'-mang ceremony, and so also has each broken household if it possesses a sementera though a lone woman calls in a man, who alone may perform the rite connected with the ceremonial killing, and who must cook the fowl. A lone man needs no woman assistant.
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