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| Eric and Bear with Chief Jean-Marc |
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| The men dancing |
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| The woman and children |
There are big namba villages and small nambas villages and I’m not sure what the difference is. Namba in Bislama seems to have a couple translations. Nambawan means number one so it stands to reason that namba means number. A namba is also the name of the traditional men’s outerwear which consists of a leaf wrapped around his penis – and nothing else. So when we arranged for a visit to a “Big Namba” village, we weren’t sure if we were entering a village composed of men with large members or one with a large population or something else entirely. What we did learn was the the big nambas and small nambas were once rival warring tribes who ate each other. Today, some of the namba villages still live in traditional kastam ways in the high mountain regions. Near the coast, the kastam ways are for special ceremonies and tourists. This is where we visited: the Big Namba village of Mahe.
(The photos on this blog were not cooperating....)
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