Image India: Hindu Sacrament Thread Investiture
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content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2005.10.71
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content: Carleton College Library educational film collection
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content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 504 feet, 16mm)
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content: 1969
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content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film: Explains how the sacrament of investiture is considered by many Hindus as the single most important vital event in a pious young man's life. Shows the performance of this rite on a boy as it marks his entry into the period of preparation, celibacy, and education prior to achieving his full manhood in the Hindu religious community. Filmed within the Tengali brahman community of Srivaisnavas.

Credits: Dir.by H. Daniel SmithProd. by H.D. Smith: Hindu Ways Series, Film Marketing Division Syracuse University