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The Red Bowmen

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The Red Bowmen — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • January 1, 1978
  • Runtime
  • 58 min
  • Genres
  • Documentary
  • Director
  • Chris Owen

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