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Anthropological footage for educational purposes. Tribal boys and girls play with European kid and red balloon in Kastom village, Vanuatu(southwest Pacific Ocean). Children will play with anyone until a parent tells them not to! The tribal children giggles in joy as they watch the European kid clad with leaves as clothes walks around with the red balloon. Days of Genesis out there! (The name "Vanuatu" is an important aspect of national identity. Leaders of the Vanua'aku Party, which led the first independent government, invented the term in 1980 to replace the colonial name New Hebrides. Vanua means "land" in many of Vanuatu's one hundred five languages, and translations of the new name include "Our Land" and "Abiding Land." Culturally, Vanuatu is complex. Some of the people follow matril