Independence celebration ritual

Re-photographed image from a villager's scrapbook. south west bay men carry first prime minister walter lini, 1980, when vanuatu gained independence from france and great britain. one resident commented on lini's heavy weight: 'oli kaikai long pensil nomo. oli no wok' or "they just eat from the pencil. they don't work."

• 1980

• Land and Custom Sustained and Revived
• Mewun Scrapbooks

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• South West Bay (Malakula, Vanuatu)
• Vanuatu

• Scrapbooks
• Vanuatu Independence

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Unknown

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2021-11-16