Nakavika Mourns Elias - The Nakavika Project 12

WARNING: There are some disturbing visuals of a cow slaughter in this video. Be warned as you watch this (1:39 - 2:15), but boy could I have shown you worse than this...yikes!

January 15th, a man in our village died of a heart attack at 45. We followed the week's events, there in the highlands of Fiji.

http://www.nomadderwhere.com/the-nakavika-project/

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Travel & Events

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• Nomadderwhere
• Nakavika Project
• Garrett Russell
• Lindsay Clark
• Funeral
• Fiji

[wheresjennyb]

Beautifully documented. Thank you for sharing.

[Linzer32]

@wheresjennyb Thank you very much. They really appreciated us capturing the moments on film for them.

[IamTheSassUhFrass]

Thanks for sharing. Best wishes to Nakavika and hopes that Elias and his friends and family havefound peace.

[Linzer32]

@IamTheSassUhFrass In traditional Fiji, it takes mourners 100 days to fully find peace after a death, and after that, everyone must forget about it. It's an interesting tradition of theirs.

[22871987]

Interesting. Why did they lift the casket and women walking under it?

Why did they touch the casket and walk passed it?

I know its different everywhere in fj the way they celebrate weddings,funeral etc. And this is something new to me. Is it just the village or the whole province practice it that way?

[IamTheSassUhFrass]

@Linzer32 I´m not sure I understand what you mean when you say they must forget about it. Does that mean they forget the death? and in that case remember his life? or that they forget the person? maybe by im not sure like, not talking about the person?

[rusjafoster]

beautiful video.

[tukast]

Loving your work in Fiji