The Red Bowmen

The Red Bowmen

2 Reviews

1978
58min
The Red Bowmen

Storyline

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.

  • Released

    1978

  • Runtime

    58min

  • Director

  • Genre

    Documentary

  • Status

    Released

  • Language

    English

  • Production

    Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios

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