The love dance - in the Nuba language called »Njertun« Just a bit later after the end of the bouts, one Nuba is beating the drum for the »Njertun«, which is always following the bloody bouts. Different from most of the primitive peoples in South-East Nuba the girls are choosing their men. During this ceremony the girls are accompanied by their mothers spurring on and encouraging their daughters with trilling singings in order to conquest their husbands with ever wilder and more passionate dances. The beating of the drums, the stamping and the wild yells last until the night comes. It is a spectacle of the elemental forces.
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