The Red Bowmen
The Red Bowmen

The Red Bowmen

The Red Bowmen

Release date : 1978-01-01

Production country :

Papua New Guinea

Production company :

Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios

Status : Released

Durasi : 58 Min.

Popularity : 0.0261

5.5

Total Vote : 2

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.