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The action of this sequence is at night with ceremonial dancing both outside and inside the ceremonial house. The second- and third-stage initiates endure an almost total ban on eating and drinking until...
More of the ceremonies showing initiates dancing, listening to lectures and learning the knowledge they need for adulthood. The boys undergo more ceremonial ordeals such as being rubbed with nettles, and...
This sequence shows a purification ceremony, the dismantling of the head-dresses, a concluding feast, and an eloquent speech for the initiates. A sacred betelnut ceremony is conducted and the lecture, which...
On the condition that the series never be shown in Papua New Guinea, the Baruya allowed a film crew to record an entire set of male initation rituals. The Baruya live in the eastern Highlands of Papua New...
Wildlife study of the numbat, a small marsupial that eats termites.
The men are shown hunting emus from behind a hide. The women collect and grind ‘mulga’ seeds, collect grubs from the trunk of a gum tree and cook them, and collect the fruit of the ‘ngaru’. During...
Minma has killed a kangaroo and he carries it back to the camp where he digs a cooking trench, cooks it in hot embers and then distributed. Minma’s wives are involved with this process only at the time of...
The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...
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