1. On February 21, 1960, The Dynamo (official publication of the student body of the Baguio Technical and Commercial College) ran an editorial urging Cordillerans to discard the feast system. It argued that "money [that] should be invested in the education of children or in some worthwhile pursuit is lost in one or two days of festive but meaningless revelry."

2. Several of the small-scale gold-mining communities in the Itogon area (of the middle Agno Valley) are populated primarily by Kankana-ey speakers from Suyoc. These villages therefore have a close relationship with Buguias. Information on the religious practices of Kankana-ey miners in the middle Agno was supplied by Evelyn Caballero, Ph.D. candidate, University of Hawaii.