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the Ouliengbu or spring festival |
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further preparations for festival |
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Some young men are sitting in front of the Angban and cut up indigo leaves on a stone. With the green juice they then dye their wide bark belts which are renewed today. Below the Ang's house (71) and that of the Balang Ang the young men have built a bamboo platform for each on which the girls will dance. Now already some small girls are playing on them, some of them wearing flimsy bright red cloth. The cloths come from the plains of course. The men do not work any more today but women and girls have to fetch water as usual of course. On all platforms people are busy repairing their ornaments and dress and preparing their makeup. |
