RESEARCH DATA:

A wooden wine server called hilit in Mt. Province used during peace pacts. When elders and members of the communities attend the bodong, a peace pact system practiced by the different ethnolinguistic groups in Kalinga. While it is called pechen in Bontoc, Mt. Province. There are three steps in the peace pact first is the sipat followed by simsim or singlip and lastly the lonok or inom (Parpan, 1975). At the conclusion of the pact, elders and leaders of each group would have a ceremonial drinking of the rice wine (tapuey) using this wooden wine server. The ceremonial drinking seals the pact of the two warring groups and would serve as allies.

REFERENCES:

Parpan, M. 1975. ‘The Kalingas’, The Communicator, 25 Jan. 1975. Cited in Friends of the Philippines, Makibaka! Join us in struggle (Amersfoort: De Horstink, 1978), pp. 108–11.