| Location: | Papua New Guinea |
| Subject: | Rituals; dance |
| Length: | 58 minutes |
| Format: | DVD; 16mm; Video |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1983 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Chris Owen |
| Producer: | IPNGS |
| Distributor: | DER |
| Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 703 |
| Description: | 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. Study guide available. |
| Record No: | 1758 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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