#hongi

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Unidentified Māori women greeting each other with a hongi alongside the entrance to an unidentified meeting house. Image taken for the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department, 1900-1909

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Mando Culture Studies✨Pt. 2 - The Bonk (Glasgow and New Zealand)

A Keldabe Kiss is a play on the real-world slang Glasgow Kiss, both meaning the same thing: a headbutt.

Keldabe was the mining and steelworks city on Mandalore; the place where the beskar is from. “Keldabe Kiss” is a joke about how aggressive the Mandalorians are; it’s also a reference to the beskar, like you need a beskar helmet/beskar head to fight there.

We’re familiar with the soft version:

Fandom calls this a Keldabe Kiss, but it’s really a Mando version of the Māori Hongi, a nose/forehead bump used for greetings with a lot of cultural significance. This happened because Daniel Logan and Tem Morrison are both Māori and they brought that into their interpretation of their characters.

There’s some funny crossover now because of the mix up of these two terms, like that a full-on headbutt can still be a romantic kiss gesture between Mandalorians, which I love. But the term Keldabe Kiss really refers first and foremost to a headbutt in a fight, memorializing the famous beskar city with so much cultural significance to the Mandalorians! 😍❤️

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Schneider and Oliver. Hongi. The traditional gesture of greeting among the Maori people

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Taika Waititi doing "Hongi” to Maori presenter at Thor: Love & Thunder Premiere in Sydney

source: Marae TVNZ 

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HONGJOONG, MINGI

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The World Ep.1: Movement

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Now hear me out

A non-canonical star wars comic called "The Great Uknown." Written by W. Haden Blackman depicts this very xenophobic ass moment in which Han solo accidentally finds earth and Native Americans kill him with their weapons... Again this comic was racist as hell.

But either way Hypothetically speaking BBY (the timeline of the original trilogy) takes place during the time of native Americans and subsequently during the time of the Maori so...

(Edit, i fixed the image a wonderful user informed me that the noses should be touching during the Hongi)

If anyone can please correct me on this one I want to be as respectful as possible. I wanted to take something that was stereotypically racist and turn it on it's head. I think about how cool it would be to meet your whānau from across the galaxy :)