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exchanges of gifts between young people in different villages |
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In the Chi group there is no regular exchange of gifts between boys and girls of the same village, but when the girls or boys go to another village to dance, they exchange gifts with the boys or girls of the other village. The boys give walking sticks to the girls, the richer ones such of iron, the poor boys wooden or bamboo sticks, but both kinds decorated with red goats hair. The girls give baldrics to the boys. These baldrics were originally made of bark fibre of a creeper. Such baldrics are still made at Chi etc., but now woollen ones are more frequent. |
