Mandiwa Initiation Ceremony in the Top End of Australia

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Uploaded by on Mar 28, 2010

Two actors, decorated with cotton wool stuck to their bodies and wearing headdresses made from paper bark, are dancing towards the initiates who lie down, looked after by their mentors at the start of the all-night "Mandiwa" ceremony that will culminate in their circumcision the following morning in Numbulwar, east Arnnhem Land.

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  • How beautiful is this - and so natural. I love the thought that indigenous Australian Aboriginal culture is so alive. The world culture would be so much more plain and uninteresting without it.

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