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Updated: June 5, 2025
It must be noted here that all Bontoc agricultural labors, from the building of the sementera to the storing of the gathered harvest, are accompanied by religious ceremonials. They are often elaborate, and some occupy a week's time. These ceremonials are left out of this chapter to avoid detail; they appear in the later chapter on religion.
It is made only in Bontoc and Samoki. Ag-ka-win' is the small rump basket almost invariably worn by women when working in the irrigated sementera. It is of fi'-ka bamboo, is made commonly in Bontoc and Samoki, and occasionally in Tulubin.
As the soil of the sementera is turned for the new rice crop these pigsties are cleaned out and the rich manure spread on the beds.
Nothing in the nature of alimony, except the dwelling, is commonly given by either party to a divorce. There are two exceptions in case a party deserts he forfeits to the other one or more rice sementeras or other property of considerable value; and, again, if the woman bore her husband a child which died he must give her a sementera if he leaves her. The widowed
No tools or agricultural implements other than bare hands are used in this work. The men keep constant watch of the sementera walls and the irrigating canals, repairing all, thus indirectly assisting the women in their cultivation by directing water to the growing crop and by conserving it when it is obtained. Protecting
Several of the old men of Bontoc have seen this rock, now broken by others fallen on it from above, but the stream of water still flows on the thirsty mountain. In an isolated garden, called "fil-lang'," now in ato Chakong, Lu-ma'-wig taught Bontoc how best to plant, cultivate, and garner her various agricultural products. Fil-lang' to-day is a unique little sementera.
As soon as the ceremonial is said the speaker harvests one handful of the grain, after which the laborers arise and begin the harvest. In the trails leading past the sementera two tall stalks of runo are planted, and these, called "pud-i-pud'," warn all Igorot that they must not pass the sementera during the hours of the harvest.
This scheme is supposed to be the best, since the flow should be sufficient fully to flood the entire plat a 100-gallon flow in two hours is considered much better than an equal flow in two days. During the irrigating season, if there is lack of water, it becomes necessary for each sementera owner to guard his water rights against other persons on the same creek or canal.
Six or seven days after birth a chicken is killed and eaten by the family in honor of the child, but there is no other ceremony there is not even a special name for the feast. If a woman gives birth to a stillborn child it is at once washed, wrapped in a bit of cloth, and buried in a camote sementera close to the dwelling. Twins The Igorot do not understand twins, na-a-pik', as they say.
Toyub 1 5 Samuiyu 2 10 Total 13 43 These sementeras produce the low average of 3 1/3 cargoes. The average value of Mang-i-lot's' sementeras, then, is 33 1/3 pesos which is thought to be a conservative estimate of the value of the Bontoc sementera. Mang-i-lot' is rated among the lesser rich men. He is relatively, as the American says, "well-to-do."
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