time and in other social occasions. Traditional costumes are worn, with the women holding shredded banana leaves in each hand, while the men hold a kalasay in their right hand. The change in steps is syncopated. The women shake their banana leaves downward, while the men strike the kalasay against the palm of their hand and against the hip. A drum or a gong is used to accompany the dancing. The sinalimba is an extraordinary dance which makes use of a swing that can accommodate three to four persons at a time. The term is also used to mean the swing itself, a representation of a mythic vessel used for journeying. Several male dancers move in rhythm to the music of a gong and drum ensemble, which are played beside the swinging sinalimba. At a given precise movement, one of them leaps onto the platform, steadies himself, and moves with the momentum of the swing. Once he finds his balance, he forces the sinalimba to swing even higher. This requires considerable skill, since he has to remain gracefully upright, moving in harmony with the sinalimba as though he were a part of it. The other two or three performers follow him onto the sinalimba one after the other, making sure they do not disrupt the pendular rhythm of the swing. A miscue could disrupt the motion, and even throw them off the platform. Even as they end the dance, they must maintain their agility in alighting from the sinalimba without counteracting or disrupting the direction of the swing. References Bibliography "Ag Tobig nog Keboklagan," Kinaadman, Vol. III (1981), 343–543. Casal, Cabriel S. Kayamanan: Mai: Panoramas of Philippine Primeval. Manila: Central Bank of the Philippines, Ayala Museum, 1986. Christie, Emerson B. The Subanens of Sindangan Bay. Bureau of Science. Division of Ethnology Publications, Vol. VI, Part 1. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1909. . "Report on the Drinking Customs of the Subanens," In Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. VIIA, No. 2 (April 1912), 114–117. Finley, J.P. and William Churchill. The Subanu: Studies of a sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao. Part I, Ethnographical and Geographical Sketch of Land and People. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1913. Frake, Charles O. "Sindangan Social Groups," Philippine Sociological Review, Vol.V, No. 2 (April 1957), 2–11. . "The Eastern Subanun of Mindanao," In Social Structure in Southeast Asia. Edited by George P. Murdock. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation