40 Rehearsal for soccer club sing sing.m4v

Rehearsal for Soccer Club sing sing (2.45) Their aim was to raise money for uniforms. They had skirts made for the masks of the ancestral spirits, and donned their bilas (decorations) in secret in a screened off area on the edge of the forest. Unfortunately, though, since few of them had been formally initiated into tribal law and custom, neither the flute players nor the dancers who joined them were accomplished performers, and they needed repeated instruction from older men notably Damien Mungun (in the white trousers).
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Education

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• Papua New Guinea
• Sepik
• Sawos
• Torembi
• sing sing
• soccer
• music