Going Away Party (Sungai Lading, 2006)

Here are few photos I uncovered from the going away party that was held for me at my site on the Christmas before I left Indonesia to write up my dissertation (before returning the following year for a post-doc in a different part of Indonesian Borneo). The head of the nearby village of Katunjung came, along with pretty much everyone else from the village. Several brothers of my assistants and their father and some of my friends from Tuanan also came. We ate rotan soup and had a wonderful time: