The Red Bowmen

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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.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1978-01-01
  • Runtime: 58 min
  • Country: Papua New Guinea
  • Language: English
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 5.5
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