Standing out among Gebusi, 1981: Bruce in a welcoming line of adult Gebusi men (whose average height is 5 ft 4 in). Men from the host village form a receiving line and call out the kinship or gift exchange name of each visitor as they snap fingers with him (like shaking hands). By this means, each host individually greets each male visitor. In the photograph, Bruce is among a contingent of men from his village who are being welcomed at a feast in an adjacent community. | |
3.20 Hosts run into the longhouse at Yibihilu with plates of food to appease the visitors. | |
3.21 Kava root (gowi), a mild intoxicant, is chewed and mixed with water before serving to visitors. |
3.22 Sasaga ladles kava into a drinking bowl made of a palm spathe. |
3.23 A costumed man drinks a bowl of intoxicating kava. |
6.4 Initiates appease the visitors by serving them palm spathe plates heaped with food. |
