Traditions of Yami Tribe
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Traditions
As there are many traditions in the Yami tribe, I’ll zoom into a few more special traditions that the Taos practiced.
- Flying Fish Culture
What’s unique about this tribe is that they have developed a culture that is known as the “Flying Fish Culture” whereby they conduct a “Flying Fish Calling Ritual” during where flying fishes appear and thereafter, baiting to catch the fish. This culture not only focuses on catching flying fishes, but also they practiced different kinds of catching methods to catch different types of fishes. They also limit rating them to prevent excessive fishing.
They classified the fishes into categories whereby they are being consumed by different hierarchy of people. They are the old people fishes which are consumed by the elders, the men fishes which are not available to women and the women fishes which are available to everyone. (Yami Tribe, N.d.)
- Great Boat Culture
Apart from the “Flying Fish Culture”, Yami tribe has another culture named the great boat culture. The great boat culture is where this tradition is being passed by where families built their own fishing boats using only 21-27 planks.
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