The
most important subsistance food is sago flour. The Sago
palm is also the source of very important ceremonial
food, the larvae of the Capricorn beetle. These grubs
are considered a great delicacy, 60 days before
scheduled hundreds of sago trees are cut down and people
make holes in the trunks, so that the beetles will lay
eggs in them. Just
before the celebrations the mature larvae are collected
and eaten in great quantities out of specially carved
wooden bowls. Beside this ceremony they also still have
other ceremonies such as : New canoe ceremony, Mbis pole
ceremony, etc |
