The Sulu Archipelago and its people, by Sixto Y. Orosa ...

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take two nights to give the entire Maulud. The chanters
are seated, arranged in groups of six. Of these, three
sing one paragrag ph andc then three sing the next, all in a
peculiar supplieating tone, until a chapter is finished.
lThen the book is moved to the next group of six, and
so on, until the entire life story of Molammed is sung.
While one group sings, the others rest. About halfway
through the book, where Haliima, Mohlamtniedt's Tmother,
relates the birth of the Prophet, all the chanters stand
while they sing in chorus, and, from a kind of artificial
tree, each takes a stick bearing a paper flower. The
stick is held until the clapter is finished. Then the
clianters resume their sitting postures ancd continue
through the sacrel book.
The guests at the Maulud bring gifts to the host, who
is expected to pay all the inuams and wolen singers.
An imam receives from three to five pesos according to

Americans and Sulus at tlhe opeing of a farm school at Indanan, island of
Jolo. At the left of the picture is Governor Carpenter; at the center is
Mrs, Speaer, founder of the school; and at the right is Goveror tohrer,