Word: liana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Liana--presented as a part of theTeacher, Learning, and Intimacy Film andDiscussion Series. Film and discussion. ScienceCenter...
Bungee jumping is based on an age-old ritual practiced by the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Every spring villagers there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords. Young men then scale high wooden towers, lash the vines around their ankles and jump. A successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage -- and a harbinger of a plentiful yam harvest...