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Nguné Elü : the day the moon menstruated / Associação Indigena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Video in the Villages, Núcleo Transformações Indigena-Museu Nacional present ; a video by Takumã Kuikuro, Maricá Kuikuro.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Social life and customs.
- Indians of South America.
- Kuikuru Indians--Folklore.
- Kuikuru Indians.
- Kuikuru Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Kuikuru Indians--Social life and customs.
- Lunar eclipses--Folklore.
- Lunar eclipses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video (28 min.))
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In Portuguese and Kuikuro with English credits and subtitles.
- Summary:
- Produced during a Video in the Villages workshop in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse (Indigenous Park of Xingu, Brazil). When an eclipse takes place during the workshop, the villagers explain in their own words what happens during an eclipse, when moon menstruates, and about the celebrations and rituals that take place. The post-eclipse ceremonies include singing, dancing, vomiting, wrestling, and sacrificial rituals.
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 2004.
- OCLC:
- 649690724
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