Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Hindu pipe or nose-flute composed of a gourd or nut-shell into which two wooden pipes or reeds are inserted. It emits a droning or humming sound, and is the instrument commonly used by snake-charmers.
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Throw yourself out of the path of a spray of missiles, and you will find yourst impaled on pungi sticks hidden in the low vegetation.
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Swantz reported that at the time she did her research, pungi figurines were no longer made in Bunju, though there was an actively used matawango shrine in the area, which generated both fear and reverence among those who believed in its significance.
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Similarly, she reported that Kwere speakers and inland-lying Zaramo also reported having mhungi, pungi "cults." back
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In the Ruvu ethnographic record, for instance, Marja-Liisa Swantz found that Zaramo in the Bunju area kept matawango, a religiously-significant clay-pot container in which they placed earthen figurines, pungi, "fashioned from clay and mixed with some parts of the skin, hair and nails of the ancestral guardian of such pots."
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The certainty of his trying to escape or of his falling on some pungi stakes didn't mean anything to me until later when I had thought about it and it dawned on me what they meant to do.
Tour of Duty 2003
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At that point, Kerry wrote, the Nung's Green Beret adviser, who had remained aboard Kerry's boat, turned to him and said, "I wouldn't be surprised if our prisoner tries to escape or if he falls on some pungi stakes in there."
Tour of Duty 2003
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The certainty of his trying to escape or of his falling on some pungi stakes didn't mean anything to me until later when I had thought about it and it dawned on me what they meant to do.
Tour of Duty 2003
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At that point, Kerry wrote, the Nung's Green Beret adviser, who had remained aboard Kerry's boat, turned to him and said, "I wouldn't be surprised if our prisoner tries to escape or if he falls on some pungi stakes in there."
Tour of Duty 2003
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On the North Vietnamese team you have “pungi sticks” and boobytraps, or mortars and mines or explosion packs.
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