Language Name goes here

1a

A stick person, fashioned of arrow-grass canes, bilāu, to represent a person.

Inyammāday kinnāhuh nan dālan ta way mangipatā'ot hinan pinādeng.

They will make a stick person along the trail to frighten away place spirits.

Used as follows: 1) To guard a trail or upland and pond fields, as described under 1b. 2) To represent an enemy whose head is cut off during a headhunting enactment ritual. A stick person used for this latter purpose is made of about four arrow-grass canes. The leaves of two are left on and rolled into a ball to approximate a head. The other two canes are broken about halfway up and the top halves are bent horizontal to approximate arms.

dalongdong 1

1b

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to fashion a stick person (theme) along a trail (loc ref -an) against visitors, place spirits, pinādeng, or sickness-imparting spirits, dumatong, during the rice-harvest-completion holiday, tūngaw hi alpahan di īwang; an upland field after planting to scare away wild pigs; a pond field to scare away rice birds.

panginnāhu; manginnāhu

For a description of how a trail-guarding stick person is fashioned and used, see dalongdong 2. A stick person guarding a pond field or upland field is fashioned in the same manner as a trail-guarding stick person, except that clothing is added to make it look realistic.

For someone (agent) to use arrow-grass canes (inst paN-) for making a stick person.

dalongdong 2

2a

A toy dog, fashioned of rice straws and hung over a child's bed as a pacifier.

2b

For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to hang a toy dog (theme) over a child's bed (loc ref -an) as a pacifier.

panginnāhu

For someone (agent) to use a particular toy dog (inst i-, paN-) for hanging a toy dog, as described above.

binannīah tinnāgu 1