The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
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page 107 of 483 (22%)
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On the day after the burial all the men relatives go to the river and catch fish, the small kacho. The relatives have a fish feast, called "ab-a-fon'," at the hour of the evening meal. To this feast all ancestral anito are invited. All relatives again spend the night at the house, from which they return to their own dwellings after breakfast of the second day and each goes laden with a plate of cooked rice. In this way from two to eight days are given to the funeral rite, the duration being greater with the wealthier people. Only heads of families are buried in the large pine coffins, which are kept ready stored beside the granaries everywhere about the pueblo. As in the case of Som-kad', all old, rich men are buried in a plat of ground close to the last fringe of dwellings on the west of the pueblo, but all other persons except those who lose their heads are buried close to their dwellings in the camote sementeras. The burial clothes of a married man are the los-a'-dan, or blue anito-figured burial robe, and a breechcloth of beaten bark, called "chi-nang-ta'." In the coffin are placed a fa'-a, or blue cotton breechcloth made in Titipan, the fan-cha'-la, a striped blue-and-white cotton blanket, and the to-chong', a foot-square piece of beaten bark or white cloth which is laid on the head. 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, |
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