The red bowmen
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The red bowmen
Documentary Educational Resources, c2007
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In English and Papuan languages; with English subtitles
Credits: Anthropologist, Alfred Gell; sound recordist, Les McLaren; produced by Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies
A presentation of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, in co-operation with the Dept. of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University
Date on label: 1983
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Summary: "Every year, a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of the cassowaries. An ethnography by anthropologist Alfred Gell, Metamorphosis of the cassowaries, complements the film"--Container