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In this photograph taken on March 22, 2014, a Sumbanese tribesman participates in the annual “pasola” festival, a ritual mock battle on horseback in Ratenggaro village located in Indonesia's island of Sumba. Two teams of tribesmen on horseback charge at each other hurling bamboo spears in a thousand-year-old ritual on the Indonesian island of Sumba aimed at producing a prosperous rice harvest. Spectators, their mouths reddened from chewing betel nut, scream them on from the sidelines of the show in Ratenggaro village, reaching for their machetes when a rider is struck at close range and the referee calls foul play. (Photo by Romeo Gacad/AFP Photo)
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