GROHONYAK (20 December). Women making conical baskets (the grohonyak) while singing to Balimahin.
After the morning feast with the goat meat boiled from the previous night for the chel'ik sambiek celebration, the enthusiasm of singing and dancing will continue until noon. Young men and women will clap, sing and dance cheerfully on flat roofs despite the December cold. Meanwhile women will also get involved in handicraft: they will make the grohonyak, conical baskets made from willow tree branches, while singing a slow Cawmos song dedicated to one of their gods, Balimahin: Balimahin ta ucundaw ‘Balimahin indeed has come’, O guum bi oni! ‘Oh (God) wheat seeds bring!’ This sort of handicraft is a kind of contest for them regarding which group will finish the strongest and most beautiful grohonyak first.