Enga: Te Ceremony
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1984.7.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kendon, Adam
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content: Adam Kendon films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (3 hours, black-and-white sound; 6,050 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 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: Full film record of the Enga, a sedentary subsistence horticulturalist group of the Enga Province found west of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea. Footage documents a te ceremony and the preparations leading up to it. Documentation of events prior to the ceremony include speeches delivered at the ceremonial ground at Kasapu and singing and additional speeches that take place prior to the distribution of pigs (a medium of exchange in many Enga ceremonial presentations that occur particularly at times of marriage and death). People are seen arriving for te ceremony where they engage in conversation until the pigs are ritually presented.