Malekula

Malekula, shaped like a sitting dog, has two uplands sections connected by 'the dog's neck.' It is one of Vanuatu's top tourist attractions. The highlands are difficult and unwelcoming, rising to above 800 meters and crisscrossed by thin valleys. The Big Nambas and Small Nambas are two of Malekula's most important cultural groupings, called after the size of the men's Namba (penis scabbard). Small Nambas men wrap one leaf of dried fiber around their penis and insert it inside a bark belt.

Their semi-kastom communities are built around Tamtam, ready to pound out a rhythm and a dancing location. Big Nambas men wrap enormous purple pandanus fibers around their penis, guarding the loose ends with a fat bark belt and exposing their testicles. They had such a fantastic battle, like the reputation, that no tourists dared to enter their domain. Even police operations that were supposed to punish them for murdering businesspeople were ambushed and scattered. They had a stone hearth in which undesirable visitors were ceremoniously roasted and consumed.

Location: Vanuatu, Pacific Ocean