The Red Bowmen
1978, English. Directed by Chris Owen.
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.
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- 0h 58m
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- English
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- 1 January 1978
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- Papua New Guinea
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The Red Bowmen (1978) was directed by Chris Owen.