Mandiwala Aboriginal initiation ceremony in Numbulwar, Australia

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Two young boys from Numbulwar in eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, go around the community in their traditional attire, carrying small spears with which they try to hit young men who later that night then will have to dance for them. Towards the evening the boys stay with their fathers and the other men while the men and boys who will that night dance for them enter the ceremonial ground, decorated with cotton wool stuck on their bodies. They will dance until daybreak, when the boys will be circumcised.
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Hello I'm from AURUKUN western Cape York Peninsula Queensland AUSTRALIA been living in Numbulwar back in 1985 I was 20 years old thinking of going back there one day