Commemoration of the Hiri at Porebada: Porebada Remembers

Location:Papua New Guinea
Subject:Dance
Length:56 minutes
Format:1/2-inch VHS and guide
Hue:Color
Year Released:1992
Series:
Director:Marsha Berman
Producer:Asples Productions
Distributor:Asples Productions
Library Code:UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 20304
Description:Porebad is a village on the outskirts of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Women make clay pots and grass skirts, cook yams and sago, and do a nape dance. Men play the sede bamboo slit gong. Willagers sing Hiri songs. Elders recall trading voyages to the Papuan Gulf in multi-hulled lakatoi canoes. Has accompanying guide
Record No:366
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