Boie'nen (Old Buhi Language)

bangati

English: Translation

A plant species native to the Americas, naturalized in Buhi, producing small, hard, and heavy seeds resembling "Indian Shot" or black shotgun pellets.

Part of Speech

noun

Semantic Domain

Plants, trees and other vegetation

Scientific Name

Canna indica

Notes

see: talayop

Traditional Use: Boie’nen boys used these seeds as projectiles in a makeshift game, shooting them at each other through a slim bamboo tube called "talayop" until the late 1960s.

Source

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