In the cool of the afternoon, the people begin to assemble in the yard, where they are soon joined by the medium carrying a spear in one hand, a rooster in the other, and with a rice winnower atop her head. She places the latter on a rice-mortar close to the _pala-an_, and uncovering it reveals a small head-axe, notched chicken feathers, her shells, five pieces of betel-nut and two leaves, a jar cover, a dish of oil, and a coconut shell filled with rice and blood. At the command of the medium, four or five men begin to play on copper gongs, while the wife of the host comes forward and receives the spear and rooster in one hand. The medium takes the head-axe, and then the two women take hold of the winnower with their free hands. Keeping time to the music, they lift it from the mortar, take one step, then stop, strike the spear and head-axe together, then step and stop again. At each halt the medium takes a little of the rice and blood from the winnower and sprinkles it on the ground for the spirits to eat. [144] When they have made half the circuit of the mortar, they change places and retrace their steps; for "as they take the gifts partly away and then replace them, in the same manner the spirits will return that part of the patient's life which they had removed, and he will become well and strong again." The blood and rice which remain after this dance is placed on nine pieces of banana bark. Five of these are carried to the _pala-an_; one to the east and one to the west gate of the town; one is put on the _talagan_, a miniature seat erected near by for the convenience of visiting spirits, and one in a little spirit house known as _tangpap_ (cf.p.311). For an hour or more, the medium makes _dawak_, and summons many spirits into her body. When the last of superior beings has made his call, the medium goes to her home, carrying her payment for the day's work, [145] but the townspeople remain to drink _basi_ and to sing _da-eng_ until well into the night. Early the next morning, the medium goes to the house, and removing the jars and the bundle of decorated rice from the _tabing_, carries them to the family's rice granary, and places them in the center of that structure, covering them with six bundles of rice. This is an offering to the spirit residing there, and for the next five days the granary must not be opened.