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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 “Mandiwala” ceremony that will culminate in their circumcision the following morning in Numbulwar.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Thu May 29, 1997
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