The Gunwingu Game of Nambiquara

Women try to undo the men's lin coverings, or touch their peanuses. Men go with their zamalog partners, with a show of reluctance, to copulate in the bushes away from the fires which light up the dancers. They may give the women tobacco or beads. When the women return, they give part of this tobacco to their own husbands who have encouraged them to go zamalog. The husbads use the tobacco to pay their own female zamalag partners. New singers and musicians appear. Are again assaulted and dragged off to the bushes. Beads and tobacco circulate. Finally, onee participants have all paired off at least once. And the