Mohter nursing her baby after ritual bath at cilhdbirh ceremony in Palau
A mother nurses her baby daughter during a break from one of the many hot baths required for her ngasech, the traditional ceremony that all women in Palau undergo after having given birth for the first time. Palau, Micronesia, in February, 2005.
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