GAWAY GAWAY

Gaway Gaway is a harvest dance performed in celebration of an abundant harvest of The gaway, also known as gabi or taro. It is a playful dance depicting the Harvesting, digging, pulling, cutting, cleaning and bundling of the gaway. Because Gaway is harvested by pulling the root from the ground there was an inevitable hitting of each other's elbows, which has been adapted into the dance known as siko siko translating to elbow elbow.