New Guinea, Lower Sepik (Kambrambo) -- Youth's Initiation Rites
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.816; E00502
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930
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: Edited film: shows the festivities of the initiation rites including dancing, playing the sacred bamboo flutes, and ritual blood-letting. A group of dancers carries a crocodile costume and the animal seems to "swallow" young boys.
Legacy Keywords: Papua New Guinea ; New Guinea, Lower Sepik ; Oceania; Kambrambo