Pasola Festival | The blood war game of Sumba

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On the Indonesian island of Sumba, the annual Pasola Festival marks the start of the new planting season. It is an ancient fertility ritual in theory, but in practice it is a violent blood sport. Mounted on horseback and bearing sharp wooden spears, two neighboring villages square off in mock combat that traditionally escalates beyond the "symbolic act." The saying goes: It's not a pasola until there's blood on the field.

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