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DKH01-049_tapuka_1 - Tapuka oluka koy kuriapongoy ‘Old man climbing up a coconut tree’

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This string figure represents an old man climbing up a coconut tree. The figure itself is especially entertaining because the figure of the ‘man’ is moved up and down the ‘trunk’. The string figure-maker says that the man is climbing the coconut tree, reaches the top, pulls off a coconut, and climbs down again. As this ‘climbing’ with the figure is a lot of fun, the string figure-maker does it ...
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2018
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