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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 Coniston Station, north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, cattle are mustered and yarded. The lease is held by a European, but the stockmen are Anmatjara people, whose...
A record of ritualised warfare, made among the Dugun Dani of the Baliem Valley in West New Guinea. The film also describes the everyday lives of a man and a boy. The film was shot in 1971 before the area...
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...
A romanticised saga of Kwakiutl Indian life on the northwest coast of America, filmed in 1914 by Edward S Curtis, who was already famous for his still photographs of Indians, and his writings about them. It...
About two groups of Indians in Colombia: the Maku, who live mainly by hunting and gathering and the sedentary Barasana who live mainly by farming. Maku and Barasana views of themselves and their world, and...
Shows the effects of interaction between the river-dwelling Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia and two groups of outsiders: the Libres, descendants of freed slaves with whom they trade,...
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