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Pentecost Land Diving — Cover

About Pentecost Land Diving

Nagol is the yam-harvest land dive of southern Pentecost Island. Men climb a tower of timber and liana built on a cleared hillside and jump with two vines tied at the ankle, aiming for their shoulders to brush the tilled soil below. No nails, no rope — the whole structure is vegetal, and the ground is hoed soft and raked again before every jump.

The design system takes its structure from the tower, not from the jump. Stacked horizontals at shortening intervals, diagonal bracing, joints that read as bound rather than welded, and a page ground the colour of freshly turned volcanic earth. Every edge is cut or split; nothing here is milled smooth.

Learn more about the Pentecost Land Diving style

Origin
Southern Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, Melanesia
Era
Pre-colonial ritual, outside documentation from the 1950s; performed every April–June to the present
Key figures
Kal Muller · Irving Johnson · the nagol builders of Bunlap · the dive leaders of Londot and Lonorore
Movements
Melanesian yam-harvest ritual · kastom practice · vernacular lashed-timber construction

Pentecost Land Diving design spec

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BitterBody
Barlow CondensedMono
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