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Opening of a 'taboo garden' in Loltong Bay.

Layer: Recordings of Raga - 2017-2018
Link back to source:: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MFD2/ARA
Type: Other

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Latitude: -15.543
Longitude: 168.1675
Start Date: 2017-07-03
End Date: 2017-07-03

Description

‘Taboo garden’, aragogona , are communal gardens whose access and work is restricted and regulated by community leaders. This garden above Loltong village was started in July 2016, and a year later, in July 2017, all restrictions on its access and work were lifted - that’s what is meant by opening the taboo garden. I was in Loltong when the garden was opened and recorded the first people who harvested the yams, as well as the pig-killing ceremony and the exchange of mats that is part of the opening ceremony (mwa mahavangi na aragogona 'the opening of the taboo garden')

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Source

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MFD2/ARA

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