Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 6
name: label: Collection Producer
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Collection Host
content: Attenborough, David, 1926-
label: Collection Director
content: MacIntyre, Michael
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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 taken outside a "Yamao" or men's house in highland Malekula showing natives as they carry out and display various carved and painted cult objects that are housed inside; scenes of David Attenborough eliciting the names of these objects; a ritual enclosure which features several standing slit gongs and an adjacent mortuary shrine for a recently deceased elder; shots of Attenborough explaining the significance of the ritual edifice in which the tribal elder is installed and detailing the objects which surmount the funeral site; male drummers playing the slit gongs adjacent to the mortuary structure.

Legacy Keywords: Art statuary anthropomorphic ; Effigies art metenyelli tambuggi ; Masks polychrome ; Smoking tobacco pipes ; Drums slit gongs ; Mortuary practices corpse attitudes toward ; Music slit gongs ; Funerals drumming slit gongs ; Burials scaffolds ; Adornment mortuary rites flowers vegetation ; Ritual structures mortuary scaffold ; Houses men's houses Yamao ; Flowers use in mortuary rites ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Vanuatu ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Melanesians