For someone (agent maN-, -um-) to sponsor a headhunting enactment ritual for someone or for someone's sickness (benef i-an), involving the taking of the head of a stick person and accompanied by traditional religious rituals and dancing, for the cure of someone's sickness.
mamahbah
Imbahbāhan Mal'eng nan dogoh Ihāwana.
Mal'eng sponsored a headhunting ritual for her husband's sickness.
Performed when it is divined that the spirit of one who has died a violent death, bināgung, has caused a sickness. The man sponsoring the ritual along with several close male relatives and one or two ritualists go to a forested area to enact the taking of a head. They fashion a stick person, kinnāhu, out of a bundle of three or four arrow-grass canes, bilāu, and cut off the head. They put the head in their backpack, bangaw, inabnūtan, and return home. Dancing continues from three to eight days and nights, accompanied by matūngul, tengēteng and talangob prayers and by nightly chanting of bayun prayers.