Bear Sending Fest at Chikaphumi
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1993.6.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Okada, Kazuo
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content: Kazuo Okada videos
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Videocassette (13 minutes, black-and-white silent, 1/2 inch)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Videocassettes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film by Tetsuo Inukai depicts a Bear Festival in Chikaphumi near Asahikawa on Hokkaido, Japan. Footage includes: men chanting and walking a bear with ropes attached to its neck, dancing, feeding the bear, elders painting inau (wooden fetishes) which the crowd waves at the bear, crowd chasing the bear with inaus and shooting it with bows and arrows until it dies, skinning the bear, marching at night with torches, making salutations by dabbing white liquid on bear, and dancing and singing.