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The red bowmen / by Chris Owen and Alfred Gell.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Owen, Chris, director.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Waina-Sawanda District.
- Ethnology.
- Umeda (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.
- Umeda (Papua New Guinean people).
- Genre:
- Documentary.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (58 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1983.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2010).
- Recorded in West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
- OCLC:
- 701798433
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