Geringsing cloth is also used in the tooth-filing ceremony, which is an important rite of passage for all Balinese, not only Bali Aga.The idea of this ceremony is that one’s canine teeth should be filed down to make the person more refined and therefore fit for adult, married life in the community. This ritual act satisfies one’s ancestors.Regarding adat ritualls, those having to do with death are of course particularly important, because in so many Indonenesian societies ancestor spirits are present in peoples’ lives and can affect their lives for better of worse.One Bali Aga village, situated at the edge of the lake within the volcanic top of Gunung Agung, is known for treating its dead in a special way that is suggestive of animistic practices seen elsewhere in Indonesia as well.That is, the people of this village do not cremate their dead. In fact, they do not even bury them, but leave them out in the open.Women are not allowed to enter the cemetery when there is a body there, or else it is thought that some misfortune such as a volcanic eruption may come to the village.One can see the bones of the deceased arranged on a stone altar beneath a huge banyan tree that is more than 1,000 years old; it protects the sanctity of the place. This may be connected to pre-Hindu practices. For instance, in some tribal societies of Indonesia, after one has died, the body may later be exhumed for a second ceremony or kept on display for reburial.