Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 21
name: label: Collection Producer
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Collection Host
content: Attenborough, David, 1926-
label: Collection Director
content: MacIntyre, Michael
setName: label: See more items in
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: series of detailed close up shots taken inside the cult house of a cargo cult leader; David Attenborough shown with native hosts handling cult objects; queries about the significance of the objects; perambulations between the rooms of the house; entry into the inner sanctum where objects are displayed on shelves, in baskets, or free standing; Attenborough eliciting mythic aspects of cult beliefs from his hosts; cult leader's followers functioning as work group beneath a thatched structure in preparation for a "custom feast" commemorating traditional lifeways.

Legacy Keywords: Cargo cults cult objects cult house Guadacanal ; Millenarian movements cargo cults Guadacanal ; Effigies cargo cults ; Leadership cargo cults Guadacanal ; Feasts ceremony ; Ceremony food preparation Guadacanal ; Tools in association with cult belief Guadacanal ; Dance hand movement Guadacanal ; Wealth shell money Guadacanal ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Melita Island Lao lagoon ; Melanesians