Malah tangia

Scope note: Malah tangia takes place in April and May every year and counts as the largest festival co-organized by the Bunun’s clans bearing different family names. When the millet tassels bend with weighty grains, men would go hunting in the mountains and women would start brewing wine in preparation for the upcoming rituals. In the early morning of malah tangia a family should fire their fusil if there is a boy born to the family recently. Then men would initiate the ritual with the fire-lighting mapatus, roast and distribute the game and use a plant called bauvan to tell the fortune. Post-prandial proceedings involve drizzling the remaining wine on the bones and fusil-firing as an invigorating act. Subsequently, men should gather in the leading family’s house through a fire-crossing ritual called daugkav sapuz to attend a party of valor known as malastapan. In malastapan attendants should announce their family name and enumerate the achievement in hunting and fighting over the last year. Sons of the attendants are brought to the party to participate in malah tangia in which they are to shoot arrows at a deer’s ear. Adults utilize the occasion to go through mapa-ip taiga and mapis-lai as a ritual to augment the spiritual power of their weapons.

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