A victory cry, including a termination shout, yehēe, shouted by a group of people in a drawn-out fashion.
A victory cry is shouted as follows: 1) By ritualists, mumbā'i, on their way home from a forest where they have enacted taking a head, bahbah2, or on their return from headhunting, ngāyaw. They stop along the trail up to four times to announce their victory. Each time they shout Udday, yehēe! twice, accompanied by bowing. 2) By people gathered at a dance during a bahbah ritual; at the end of a short tale, gopah, shouted by a ritualist or an expert in tale-telling, people shout yehēe! in chorus. 3) By people assembled when a carabao has been killed standing and topples over. They shout Udday, Yehēe! 4) By people carrying a very heavy load. Successive rhythmic exclamations of a strength-generating cry, gehom, are shouted while carrying; when success has been achieved, the shouting ends with udday or yehēe!
For people (agent muɴ-, CVV- + -um-) to shout a victory cry (theme) about a severed head (loc ref -an), while returning from enacting a headhunting ritual, bahbah2, during which the head of a stick person was taken; a dance-termination tale, gopah; a carabao when killed; a load being carried, as described above.