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ceremonies for entrance of boys into morung |
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I then also took pictures of the preparation of the costume but in addition I also was told by Shankok that today and tomorrow were the ceremonies for the entrance of about eight year old boys into the The-pong, (153) his brother Puknei among them. Yesterday already on the sixth day after the new moon the boys and girls of the morung had fetched jungle herbs and the soft inner core of wild banana stalks as at this feast too it was prescribed to eat these wild plants. |
