A traditional location of trail-guarding stick persons.
Trail-guarding stick persons, dalongdong 1, are placed along trails leading from a village, babluy 1, during the harvest completion holiday, tūngaw hi alpahan di īwang, described under dalangdang 2. In Batad, the positions are typically beyond peripheral housing clusters, though some clusters lie beyond the locations. Where a trail passes through pond fields, the position is beyond the fields.