MALAYSIA | Monday, 24 November 2014 | Views [301] | View Smaller Image
Birthday celebrations continue throughout the day with a feverish schedule of music, concerts and offerings. A Yap clan performer assumes a more casual pose away from the heat and commotion at the temple. Just moments earlier, he had formed a picture of ancient wisdom in fake waist-length beard and elaborate headdress. The actors are not professionals, but merely familial revellers, friends-of-friends and neighbours enjoying their moment in the spotlight.