Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios
The Red Bowmen
Audience Score
DirectorChris Owen
Watch on Kanopy58 minDocumentary
Plot
Every year a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people who inhabit the dense primary forest of the WainaSawanda 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
