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Growing up Dega: birth, naming and coming of age
A Dega child was usually born beside the family hearth, named by the ancestors, given a false name to hide it from the spirits, and raised with a freedom that outsiders often remarked on. This page sets out what the older written sources record about growing up in the highlands, people by people, and what changed for the children who grew up in...
The bracelet
A brass or copper ring on the wrist is one of the oldest bonds among our peoples. It sealed engagements and marriages, made friends of strangers, bound villages in sworn alliance and paid the midwife. In the 1960s our villages gave it to the American soldiers they trusted, and many of those veterans kept it.
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