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Updated: May 19, 2025
A medium who knows the customs and desires of the spirits constructs a bamboo mat, which is known as talapitap, and on it offers food. The guests are not neglected, so far as regards food, for feasting and dancing occupy a considerable portion of their time.
In the lead is the host armed with spear, shield, and head-axe; next comes the medium carrying the bamboo rack talapitap like a shield, and the split bamboo dakidak as a spear; next is an old woman with a coconut shell dish, then another with a bundle of burning rice straw; behind her is the wife followed by a man who drags the dead dog.
This, when hung beside the dead, is both pleasing to the spirit of the deceased, and a protection to the corpse against evil beings. The same name is also given to a miniature shield, bow and arrow, which hang above the infant. The medium strikes them on the ground to attract the spirits to the food served on the talapitap.
A medium who knows the customs and desires of the spirits constructs a bamboo mat, which is known as talapitap, and on it offers food. The guests are not neglected, so far as regards food, for feasting and dancing occupy a considerable portion of their time.
At frequent intervals the merry-making is interrupted by one of the mediums who places the talapitap on the ground, puts rice and water on it, and then summons the spirits with the split sticks. Once during the evening, she places eight dishes and two coconut shells of water on the rack.
The next duty is to construct a woven bamboo frame known as talapitap on which the spirits are fed, and to prepare two sticks known as dakidak, one being a thin slender bamboo called bolo, the other a reed. These are split at one end, so they will rattle when struck on the ground, and thus call the attention of the spirit for whom food is placed on the rack.
Soon the month arrived in which they said they would build balaua, and they summoned the old woman Alokotán, to start the balaua. Not long after they sent to get bolo and lono with which to make the dakidak and talapitap. When it became afternoon the old woman Alokotán began to sing da-eng and the next night they sang da-eng again.
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