vatavatava² undergo the scarring ceremony

Part of Speech	vi
Morphology	va-tavatava
Gloss	MULT-incise

• • undergo the scarring ceremony
  • • culture

  • • Example 1558:
      

      Rerau enam vatavatava vai, vatokoro vai, enam gerugeru vai.

      And so we had the scarring, nose piercing, and we had our gerugeru ceremony.

      Source: Bua 01R(Bua) 033

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• See also:
  • gerugeru¹ ceremony of cutting only the hair on the forehead which comes out of the upee hat
  • gerugeru² undergo the shaving ceremony
  • tavatava² incise someone's body with the intention of leaving scars as a clan marking
  • tavatava¹ scars of incisions signifying clan membership