Vanuatu & New Caledonia by Lonely Planet

Author:Lonely Planet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Planet Pty, Ltd

CELEBRATIONS

A magnificent feast is provided by a man taking a nimangki grade. He lines up scores of pigs and walks along killing selected animals with blows to the head, touching others to show that they’ll be slaughtered later. He then presents woven mats and sufficient yams and taro for the lavish meal.

For a lad’s circumcision celebration, the father holds a grand feast. Villagers dress in wildly colourful costumes, face and body paint, and amazing headpieces. Miles of bright material form shade-screens, and peacock feathers are used as decorations. There’s dancing all through the night to celebrate the rite of passage of the boy. Adding to the colour are huge piles of gifts – food, mats and baskets – paid to the paternal extended family.

Feasts are prepared for every festival and anniversary, for a new house, for someone arriving or leaving, births, deaths and many other reasons. The women work together throughout the day, preparing laplap and nalot. The men catch fish and a pig is slaughtered. For a large gathering, it might be a cow. Everybody calmly wanders around selecting food and sitting on the ground in small groups to eat it with their fingers.

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