Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 4
name: label: Collection Producer
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Collection Host
content: Attenborough, David, 1926-
label: Collection Director
content: MacIntyre, Michael
setName: label: See more items in
content: Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974-1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Outtakes from edited film includes shots of a ritual enclosure on the island of Malekula showing a man preparing to carve a standing slit gong; shots of David Attenborough speaking pidgin to a bigman about the pigs he has just killed at a ceremonial feast; open pit of heated stones to be used for cooking the meat; interior scenes in a cult house with close up shots of various anthropomorphic art including masks, staffs, and statuary; Attenborough with two villagers clad in traditional dress eliciting from them the names of the ritual objects.

Legacy Keywords: Art statuary carving ; Carving art ceremonial ; Tools adze carving ; Ritual art mimicry ; Speech pidgin ; Cooking cooking pits ; Food preparation cooking pits ; Houses cult house men's house ; Garb penis sheaths New Hebrides ; Adornment ritual nose bones ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Vanuatu ; Melanesians