[15] This part of the ceremony is often omitted in the valley towns.
[16] Canarium villosum Bl. The resinous properties of this tree are supposed to make bright or clear, to the spirits, that the ceremony has been properly conducted. According to some informants, the pala-an is intended as a stable for the horse of Īdadaya when he attends the ceremony, but this seems to be a recent explanation.
[17] This feeding of the spirits with blood and rice is known as pīsek, while the whole of the procedure about the mortar is called sangba.
[18] This consists of two bundles of rice, a dish of broken rice, a hundred fathoms of thread, one leg of the pig, and a small coin.
[19] Many spirits which appear here and in Sayang are not mentioned in the alphabetical list of spirits, as they play only a local or minor role in the life of the people.
[20] The spirit who lives in the sagang, the sharpened bamboo sticks on which the skulls of enemies were displayed.
[21] This is of particular interest, as the Tinguian are hostile to the people of this region, and it is unlikely that either of the mediums had ever seen a native of that region.
[22] The name by which the Tinguian designate their own people.
[23] The spirits' name for the Tinguian.
[24] The term Alzado is applied to the wilder head-hunting groups north and east of Abra.