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28. Dragging a New Garamut back to the Village |
There was always something going on in Maprik villages. When in this instance the whooping, hullabaloo, and shouts of 'Isa, isa, op!' became too much of a distraction, the whole school went down to the river to investigate. The Kuminibis men were dragging in a recently completed, massive garamut drum. In this photo the river (the Amagu, or Screw) is only ankle deep. Rain in the hills, however, could turn it into a torrent within minutes and everybody knew that if warning calls were passed along in the early afternoon, it was time for the kids living on the other side - more than half of the school's enrolment - to down pencils and cross the river posthaste.
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