Two thoughts occured to me as I watched this video:
First, could any kid be more out of place at a Polynesian dance ceremony than Jake? He looks like the leprechaun who snuck onto the stage to hide from the neighbourhood kids trying to steal his red hearts, yellow moons, green clovers, and blue diamonds.
I wish I could show this video to some of our ancestors from the nineteenth century. Those puritanical, god-fearing, Christian pioneers who spent their time traveling around the Pacific, converting the heathen and trying to stamp out their cultures. What would be their reaction at seeing their descendants clad in palm leaves, with painted faces, re-enacting these pagan rituals?
Abner Hale would have had a stroke.
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