Except in the case of infants or very small children the dead are not buried immediately, but are put into a death chair around which funeral rites are held. In the meantime animals belonging to the dead person or his relatives are killed and eaten, while the burial is delayed. The interval between the death and the burial varies according to the wealth of the deceased, sometimes lasting for months in the case of the very wealthy. Even when the health authorities force immediate burial on account of danger from infectious diseases, the siling continues just the same with a dummy corpse in the death chair. Before anything is killed, the mambunong prays, asking that the food eaten at the siling may not cause sickness. A female relative then leans on the death chair and says the following: "You are dead, ----. We are giving everything we can for your siling. Do not come back for us, but let us live long." After the siling ends the corpse is put into the coffin and buried in the ground, or placed in a natural cave. The burial takes place either in the afternoon, between sunset and dark, or in the morning before the sun rises. PUGAS After a dead person has been buried, the people gather in his yard. They get a vessel of water, and the mambunong puts grass in it and sprinkles them, while saying the following: Wada, kano, san dua sin agi. Daeda Balitok un Obog. Nananakda ut napno san kabilibilig. Asida naatui san kayilianda. Natui payan inkapotda. Asida matapog nan kayipupugau at alanda san usay pingan ya lima ay tabon di pao, ut manpagasda. Manpagasda pay, kano, yan laton utay magay mamatui un daeda. Ingayan duiay ya lida ut ipugasdasnan kayi ipuipugau ut sianan moada matui, maagum san ipugau ut manpagasna. There were two brothers. They were Balitok and Obog. They had children, and the mountains fell. Then their neighbors died. When they died they buried them. Then the people gathered together, and took one plate and five leaves of cogon grass and made a ceremony. They made the ceremony then so that none of them would die. Then they handed it down to the people so that when there were deaths, the people would gather together and perform the ceremony. The pugas corresponds to the Nabaloi okat. KIAD The kiad is a ceremony celebrated by the Kankanay of Kapangan and Kibungan to cure sickness inflicted upon the wealthy by the souls of their dead relatives. A carabao, a cow, or a horse may be killed when the kiad is celebrated. The people first take a jar of tapuy to the grave of that dead relative of the sick person who is indicated by the anap as having caused the sickness. A hole is made in the grave, and the mambunong prays as follows: Amud, omalika ta yaanaka si noang, gale; ya maninommi tapuy. Soul of dead relative, come because you are given a carabao, a blanket; and we will drink tapuy.