Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 3
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; ceremonial center and accompanying activities as pigs are being readied for sacrifice; David Attenborough delivering narration on the ritual value of the large boars known as "tuskers" and their significance in a system of ritualized reciprocities among the indigenous people; comments on the role of a bigman in mobilizing this ritual wealth for sacrifice; the big man sacrificing pigs first by symbolically splitting a pig skull wrapped in dried palm leaves and then splitting the skull of the live tusker with an ax; dancing and drumming; perambulations of the dancers around the ceremonial ground.

Legacy Keywords: Animal husbandry pigs ; Ceremony feasts ; Dance ceremonial ; Music drumming song ceremony ; Adornment ceremonial ; Wealth ritual pig feasts ; Animal sacrifice pigs ; Ritual objects boar skulls ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; Melanesia ; New Hebrides ; Vanuatu ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Melanesians