Photo of us Parlaying (interrogating) the Montygnard People

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This photo is of us Parlaying (interrogating) the Montygnard people. Let me see if I can remember the Montygnard custom-- they would place a huge CROCK OF RICE WINE in the center. The rice wine was made up of slices of green bananas along with rice with the husk on it mixed with water. I remember them having the croak covered with a banana leaf. They would then lay a flat piece on bamboo wood across the top. They would cut a small splinter in the center of the flat piece on bamboo. They would stir the mixture and then top off the CROCK off with water. They would then take a long piece of bamboo which served as a straw. It was their custom that we and they take turns of drinking from the CROCK. It was the custom that you drink until the wine cleared the splinter on the flat piece of bamboo lying across the top of the CROCK. The best that I remember that was anywhere between 1 pint & 1 quart of rice wine that you had to drink per your turn. I remember the comments from everyone participating in the ritual was Boy that was a cheap drunk.