A village meat share of wake meat, bū'al, distributed to each village represented, to eat at various ceremonial occasions involving the dead.
A village meat share consists of the total of village household meat shares, hāmul, divided out for each village represented, at occasions such as when a dead person is in her or his death chair, when people gather to observe the bringing out of the bones of a dead person from a tomb, bū'a, during headhunting enactment ceremonies, bahbah, or during observances for one who died violently, bināgung. See also description under hāmul 1.