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Transcription: [00:18:34]
{SPEAKER name="Translator"}
Talay said this picture look like people that living close to his region.
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Especially, like he said, sometime woman would have piece of material cover the head, white.
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And the man in black.
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
And they're drinking, they're drinking, out of the jar of rice wine.
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Can you tell me how that was done?
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[[conversation among Kmhmu people in their native language]]
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{SPEAKER name="Translator"}
He still doesn't understand my question.
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[[conversation among Kmhmu people in their native language continues]]
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{SPEAKER name="Translator"}
They would have a bamboo straw that dip into the wine jar and then drink
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[[??]] from more than through-- more than two people that drinking together
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and they also have a cup which made from buffalo's horn to measure how much you will drink.
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Maybe one would drink 2 or 3.
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And if you have 3 people and one person would drink 2 of it,
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so we would have to multiply it by 3 would be 6 and drink [[??]].
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
A group of people would sit around the jar--
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and say, the 4 of us were sitting at the jar and the people running the ceremony
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decided 3 buffalo horns, we would have to drink while they keep filling the top of the jar
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with water and we have to drink the wine out of the bottom and make sure it doesn't overflow.
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If we're drinking too slowly, and they pour faster than we can drink,
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then we're in big trouble and we have to start over again. And a--
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{SPEAKER name="Translator"}
A person who would pour the water into the jar--
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it depends on the day that they set up or the day that they drink the wine.
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If the cow from their hands joins, if it is a male they would take a male,
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if it is a female they would take a female, who would pour the water.
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And they would -- sorry. [[laughing]]
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As they're drinking-- so the person who pour the water into the jar
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would have a word that's saying as they drink.
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When they finish on a good word then they got a good fortune.
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If they finish it on a bad word, so they have a bad fortune.
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Some case, they cannot finish it at the time and they finish the word that the person is saying,
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so they would cancel it again and start from the bottom up until again and again and again
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until you cannot finish and then you lie down at the place. [[laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
What would they do for someone who didn't want to drink the wine?