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Women have erected an enclosure from material, where the two young boys who are being initiated in a “Djapi” ceremony will be circumcised. They dance around it before retreating. After the boys' circumcision a small group of men performs a dance depicting Baru the crocodile at its nest: a display of ferocity.

Video by Ludo Kuipers, Mon Aug 04, 1997
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