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In the yam-harvest months on Pentecost Island, men climb wooden towers up to 30 metres high and dive headfirst towards the earth, saved only by two vines tied to their ankles — a ritual meant to bring a good harvest.
Photo : Christopher Hogue Thompson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Vanuatu’s entry in this atlas is land diving — gol in the Sa language, nanggol in Bislama — performed by the men of southern Pentecost Island every year in April, May or June, during the yam harvest.
Nanggol
When the yams are harvested, the men of southern Pentecost build towers of freshly cut wood lashed with vines, and one after another dive from their platforms with vines tied to their ankles, trying to brush the tilled earth with their shoulders — the higher the dive, the better the harvest.
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