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1

A head-impaling stake.

Used during a headhunting enactment ritual, bahbah, to display a head taken, pūtul. The head is displayed on the stake for the duration of the ritual, about three days. It consists of a banana stock.

2

For someone (agent muɴ-) to make a head-impaling stake.

For someone (agent) to use the stock of a banana plant (inst paN-) in making a head-impaling stake.

3

For someone (agent) to impale a head (theme i-) onto a head-impaling stake.

The head of an enemy was traditionally impaled. The practice, engaged in extensively beginning early in the twentieth century, has been to use the head of a stick person, kinnāhu, fashioned during a headhunting ritual, bahbah.