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The Red Bowmen (1978)
Directed by Chris Owen
Documentary · 58m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Chris Owen
Details
- Release date
- 1978-01-01
- Runtime
- 58m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Papua New Guinea
- Production
- Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios