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ata''uy
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A Job's tears plant; a coarse grass, Coix lachryma-jobi Linn.
Nan ata''uy hiyay middum hinan donglah pangngal nan mun'opah hi lennāwan di tāguh immuy hinan algaw.
As for a Job's tears plant, it is added to the ti plant to be used by the performer of a ceremony for getting the spirit of a person which has gone to the sun.
Held up along with a ti plant, dongla, to shade the eyes when looking into the sun during the opah ritual. For a description of this ritual, see opah1.
2
Seed of a Job's tears plant, strung as a necklace, worn by girls and women.
Another variety of Job's tears, agluy, have somewhat larger seeds.
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