Dance
Music
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dance
and music: Maluku has a rich traditional music, and
many popular Indonesian folk songs originated here.
The special type of game/an played here is called totebuang.
Bamboo flutes are played unceasingly by schoolkids.
In the Gaba-Gaba Dance (or the Bamboo Gila Dance), 4
bamboo poles placed crosswise are clicked together.
Dancers step between and around the bamboo poles without
ever getting their feet caught while the tempo gradually
speeds up. Also performed is the slow and hypnotic Handkerchief
Dance. eat: The main diet is a meal extracted from the
heart of the sago palm, a plant which grows wild. Sago
bread comes in the form of a giant waffle. A unique
native dish of this region is papeta, made by first
pulverizing and straining the pulp from the trunk of
the sago palm. This 'flour' is boiled up to form a viscous
jelly-like tasteless mass to be eaten hot. Papeta has
the consistency of, and even looks like, wallpaper paste.
If you don't swallow it straightaway you think you're
drowning. Thankfully, papeta is often served with fish
curry soup which somewhat improves the taste. There
are many varieties of bananas of matchless flavor throughout
these islands including one tiny species which grows
to maturity in only 7 months (pisang tuju bulon), up
to the gargantuan (1/2 m long) pisang raja which Amboinese
women are not permitted to eat because it is thought
that it will wreck their marriage.
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