Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 19
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: establishing shots of dolphins crossing the bow of boat, long range coastline shots from offshore; David Attenborough and party as they prepare to land and are met by natives on a beach on Guadacanal; close up shots of the greeting party--males adorned in shell money, breastplates of shell money, facial painting; natives assembled into two parallel files form an entranceway for Attenborough and party; women dressed in palm-fringed skirts; men playing pan pipes; cult leader named Moru wearing distinctive hat embroidered in shell money; entire party moving in procession up the beach to cult leader's residence.

Legacy Keywords: Wealth shell money Solomon Islands ; Garb ceremonial dress Solomon Islands ; Adornment shell money ; Songs as greeting Solomon Islands ; Musical instruments pan pipes Solomon Islands ; Ceremony greeting Solomon Islands ; Cargo Cults Moru Guadacanal ; Vegetation as adornment Solomon Islands ; Nakedness women Guadacanal ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Melita Island Lao lagoon ; Melanesians