The ebu gogo are a race of small, hairy, cave-dwelling wildmen remembered in Nage oral tradition around Boawae, at the foot of the volcano Ebulobo. Their name joins ebu, 'grandmother' or 'ancestor,' with gogo, 'to gobble,' so that they are 'the ancestors who devour anything,' for they were said to eat whatever was placed before them, raw produce included. Described as barely more than a metre tall, pot-bellied, long-armed and murmuring, and able to echo human speech, they lived apart in caves until, provoked by their thefts of crops and finally of children, the Nage lured them into accepting bundles of palm fibre for clothing, allowed them to carry these into their cave, and set the mass alight; a single pair is sometimes said to have fled westward. After the 2003 discovery of the diminutive hominin Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in western Flores, the ebu gogo tradition drew wide attention as a possible folk memory of an extinct small-bodied hominid, a connection examined at length in the ethnography of the region.