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Thursday, October 13, 2005



Then we took the bus to the top of the mountain to the small village of Ntori Wawo which we walked through to get to the performance area. There we observed the women doing the ritual dance of rice planting. Then after the rice harvest, the pounding and shucking of the rice. Then men did a sword dance/fight. Then was the stick and dagger fight, and the finale was the head banging demonstration. These rituals by the men are to show strength, courage, and how much pain one can take, total machoism. On the bus ride down the mountain, we stopped to feed the monkeys peanuts.

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