Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 9
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 shots of narrator David Attenborough at a highland ceremonial center in Malekula explaining the layout and significance of a ritual enclosure adjacent to a men's house; close up shots of the large standing carved slit gongs that serve as the focal point of the enclosure; aerial footage shot over the island from the coast to the rugged terrain drained by winding and turbulent rivers.

Legacy Keywords: Drums slit gongs ; Ecology plants selective cultivation of ; Plants ritual significance of ; Musical instruments slit gongs ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Vanuatu ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Melanesians