Himba Wedding
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1983.5.3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gordon Gibson films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (33 minutes, color sound; 1200 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
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 of wedding rites among the Himba, a pastoral Bantu people of Kackoveld in Namibia. Film documents the taking of a second wife by a Himba man and discusses the marriage in connection with intervillage kinship relations, bridewealth, and polygymy. Film includes: the adornment and ritualization surrounding zacirwa (seclusion of the bride), customary strangulation and butchering of a bridewealth ox and the reading of its viscera, onjongu dancing by guests, ritual capture of the bride by groom's age-mates, and ceremonial incorporation of the bride into the homestead of her husband.  Includes sound recordings.

Legacy Keywords: Marriage rites of passage ritual phases ; Food preparation butchering ritual cooking ; Divination butchering augury ; Adornment headdress marriage nubility ; Bridewealth marriage animal sacrifice kinship relationships ; Avoidance groom mother-in-law ; Dancing celebration mimicry feasting ; Rites of passage seclusion bride veil bridal hut ; Symbols ritual bride prosperity ox stomach fat ; Marriage bride capture kinship relationships ; Residence post-marital virilocal ; Food consumption ceremony commensality marriage ; Feasting marriage groom seclusion age mates ; Animal husbandry pastoral activities cattle wealth ; Language and culture ; Rites and ceremonies ; Zacriwa bride ; Naango bride's mother ; Vesenga groom ; Cakoya bride's father's brother ; Kackoveld (Namibia)