Playing the Tam Tam
Tree carvings at the Rhom festival
This is the sacred dance here. The festival was to bring in new young men to the group. They each brought a pig for sacrifice. Those with the smaller pigs also had to pay a cash donation. This buys them the right to dance, receive the mask from the more senior members, and be allowed to carve the traditional wood carvings. We thought maybe 4 men joined, but they clubbed 6 pigs in front of us, so we aren't sure, we were still a little shell shocked when they handed out the masks. They will eat all the meat, but in western society we are certainly a few steps removed from the clubbing our meat stage.
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