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pagīpag
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Clapping sticks, clapped together during a burial.
The sticks are of any convenient size; when the burial is completed, they are thrown away.
2
For someone (agent muɴ-; s agent maN-) to clap away a bad omen (theme) from a dead person (loc ref -an), with the use of clapping sticks or the hands (inst i-, paN-) when burying an adult.
pamagīpag; mamagīpag
Engaged in by several persons during a burial ceremony from the time the body is removed from a death chair until he or she is placed in the burial cave and the door is sealed with rocks and mud. The noise is to frighten off a bad omen agent, bumāun. Rhythm is produced by some clappers resting with every second clap.
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