Location: | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu |
Subject: | Rituals; land diving |
Length: | 34 minutes |
Format: | DVD; 16mm |
Hue: | Color |
Year Released: | 1973 |
Series: | |
Director: | Kal Muller |
Producer: | Phoenix |
Distributor: | DER; Phoenix |
Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 6396, UH film F92; HSL |
Description: | A study of the Bunlap villagers living on Pentecost Island in the New Hebrides. Land diving (jumping from extremely high platforms), a ceremony enacted to ensure a good yam harvest, is shown in detail as are the rituals of circumcision, burial, and pig castration. |
Record No: | 1048 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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