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ta'īta'
1
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 at a bad omen (loc ref -an) with the use of clapping sticks or with the hands (inst i-, paN-) when burying an adult.
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 secured with rocks and mud. The noise is to frighten off a bad omen, bumāun.
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