It has been fourteen years since the Karo have had a mass bull-jumping. They gather on the flat land outside Duss Village and dance with the men on one side and the women on the other at the beginning of a ceremony that will go on for many months. Bull jumping in the Karo tribe only happens once in a generation. This time it is happening in Duss, so everyone is very busy with the preparations. There will be about fourteen bull jumpers in this generation’s group. My friend Lale’s group was the group of the elephant. The mothers of the bull jumpers wear ostrich feather headdresses.
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