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balāung
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A headhunting-enactment eve; i.e., the name of a night spent at the home of one who will initiate a ceremony for one who has died a violent death, bahbah.
The brother and male cousins gather together the night before the ceremonies begin to determine, by balancing an egg on end on the flat side of a bolo, puyuh, where they will go early the following morning to spear and cut off the head of a stick person, kinnāhu. This gathering lasts all night.
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For people (actor -um- & theme) to gather for a headhunting-enactment eve ceremony, as described above.
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