| Location: | Papua New Guinea |
| Subject: | Ethnology; culture; tradition; sphere of life; craftwork; jewellery; dance; religion; rites; rites of passage; economy; construction; agriculture; Australia/Oceania; Papua New Guinea; |
| Length: | 535 min |
| Format: | 1/2-inch VHS; 16mm |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1972 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Ian Dunlop |
| Producer: | John Martin Jones |
| Distributor: | Film Australia; IWF (Gottingen) W 2216 |
| Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 11820; NFVLS |
| Description: | Nine-part series about Baruya village life, organization, and agriculture. Includes work on a new garden, making a scarecrow, a cassowary hunter's dance, part of a healing ceremony, and women feeding their pigs. Also shows the ritual building of the Chimya, the great ceremonial house used in initiation ceremonies for young boys. The preparations for and the rituals in the initiation ceremony are shown. Finally, a feast is held, and the great ceremonial house is destroyed. (Three segments on two cassettes) |
| Record No: | 2148 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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