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MWG members working as part of the ACCA Plan Drafting Team
Mataginifale Women's Group
Niue -
Mawalis, the honey collector team getting ready to enter mangrove forest for honey collection
A group of Mawalis men in the honey collector team gets themselves ready to enter mangrove forest for honey collection
Bangladesh -
Mawalies, the honey collector team
Bangladesh -
Mạn Chợ male Team running around the village before getting to the tugging match site
Vietnam_Picture_Tugging Rituals and Games:Anh Keo co ngoi
Viet Nam -
Kyrgyz Kok Boru team
Kyrgyzstan -
Heritage practitioner Dairiijav teaching school students how to make stitching thread from wool No.75
Art Council of Mongolia/ beating fleece, students from school
Mongolia -
Tugging Teams carrying out worshipping ritual before the tugging match
Vietnam_Picture_Tugging Rituals and Games:Anh Keo co ngoi
Viet Nam -
Mạn Đìa male Team running around the village before getting to the tugging match site
Vietnam_Picture_Tugging Rituals and Games:Anh Keo co ngoi
Viet Nam -
Seated Tugging Ritual and Game - A male tugging team
Seated Tugging is practiced in the village festival of Thach Ban Ward, Long Bien District, Hanoi city.\nThis village is situated on the land along the Red River dike. The people live mainly on farming and rice cultivation, so water is extremely important. The legend of Seated Tugging is rooted in the desire for sufficient water for life and production. Thus, the saints that people worship are all related to water. Seated Tugging expresses the desire for good weather and good harvest.\nSeated Tugging is done on the ground. A rattan rope is threaded through ironwood pillars fixed to the ground. The tugging game is played by two teams (nineteen people per team) sitting on the ground. One leg is bent, the other is straight, and the heels provide the leverage to pull. The teams also have to prepare gifts of sticky rice and a pig head covered with fat to offer to the saints. Seated Tugging is a ritual and a game, played in three-round matches at the Tran Vu temple festival. There is always a winning team. According to the compact of the community, it symbolizes luck and flourishing for the year. These compacts, concepts, and conditions for participation for Seated Tugging are prescribed\nby the community and maintained from generation to generation. The value of the ritual and game has a spiritual character and also expresses cultural creativity. It is the conversion of beliefs or desires into a cultural expression of offerings, rituals, and performances, which is reflected in the behavior between the two teams, as well as between the game participators, flag keeper, and drum player. All communities participate in the ritual and game voluntarily, fairly, and without rivalry.
Viet Nam -
Gong performance for the research team
Viet Nam -
MWG members working as part of the ACCA Plan Drafting Team_Mrs. Loseligipepe Siakimotu
Mataginifale Women's Group
Niue -
Mawalis, the honey collector team cutting beehives in the mangrove forest
Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge: The Mangrove Honey Lifecycle, pavel partha 2009,2011
Bangladesh