Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 2
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 scenes of a ceremonial pig feast held on the island of Malekula; drummers seated under a makeshift canopy of palm leaves playing slit gongs; scenes of the compound where "tuskers" (large pigs with curved tusks) are brought to be sacrified; activity around ceremonial arena; men in ritual adornment running back and forth across the dancing area; carrying in pigs for the feast; man shooting boar in the stomach with a bow and arrow; ritual ministrations of the bigman to the pigs; oratory by a bigman; men rolling out long palm mats on the dancing ground; David Attenborough delivering narration to explain the cultural value of a "tusker", how it is grown, and what criteria establishes its ceremonial value.

Legacy Keywords: Animal husbandry pigs ; Music drumming ; Musical instruments slit gongs ; Animal sacrifice pigs "tuskers" ; Speech oratory bigmen ; Oratory elders ; Feasts food preparation ; Adornment ceremonial headdress ; Ritual objects boar skulls ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; Melanesia ; New Hebrides ; Vanuatu ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Melanesians