Editing Tailspins & Tiki Gods:Smoots Guide Kamekame (section)

== Customs & Etiquette ==  

''Burial Customs'': No outsider has yet seen what the Kamekame do with their dead. No visitor has, to date, seen a cemetery or graveyard. 

''Facial Expressions/Body language:'' French colonial authorities tend toward a low estimation of the intelligence of the Kamekame in town due to their near-constant smiling (a judgement the French, to be fair, also reserve for ''les Americains''.) Other, visiting islanders in Port Cochere claim to find the Kamekame cordial, if a bit standoffish. 

An odd note: Some Kamekame have been seen to "count to 25" on their hands like some Malaysian peoples do, rather than to ten (per standard).  

''Masks and Tikis'':The Kamekame seem to have an advanced ‘mask culture’ as several Polynesian peoples do, but while they have sold the masks, outsiders have not seen them in use, nor are they (generally) invited to come watch.

"Singing In" and "Singing Out": Generally speaking, “We will come to you” seems to be the motto of the villages closest to town. As sunrise begins, there is usually a procession of villagers into town for trade or work, and a similar group-egress just before nightfall. They rarely conduct trade with outsiders in their home villages.  

The Kamekame apparently put a great deal of stock in 'permission'. They do not enter homes, businesses or other occupied buildings without announcing their presence in some fashion (either taking tacit or explicit approval and entering, or simply not going in). This extends to the entire town of Port Cochere. A spectacular, daily ritual is the process of 'singing in' and 'singing out', where the Kamekame arrive en masse around daybreak, singing so that their approach would not be taken as as trespassing, and 'singing out' at nightfall, to give notice of their approach at home. The practical purpose of this seems to partly be to startle off any wild animals in their path, but also to announce their arrival (in a non-aggressive way). 

Simply ‘barging in’ (say, to a Kamekame village) would be considered an act of aggression. (Given their terrain advantage and likely numbers involved, even the most aggressive Legion garrison officers have not considered this advisable. Given that France itself claims to only want Ile Trouve so that some other power didn’t have it, the manpower to do such a thing goes unspared.) 

''Speech'': While the Kamekame speak what seems to be a complex language of their own, those who enter town favor French (or, for some, English) over speaking their own language to outsiders- there seems to be a taboo on the matter.  They seem to regard loud speaking as itself aggressive. They have a rather short 'cutoff' before sitting to have longer discussions (that is, they do not 'stand in the street talking' as long as other cultures might.)

''Taboo'': The Kamekame keep a great many things as ‘tabu’, private, or secret from outsiders. Most questions about their lands, history, beliefs, traditions and customs are responded to with an a whole vocabulary of non- answers: “I don’t know” , ‘I’m not sure’, ‘not understand the question’, or just a non-committal grin. Questions about warfare traditions are greeted with “….are we fighting?”, questions about courtship with “…are we courting?”, and so on.