Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 13
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 wedding ceremony which include transfer of bride price, the departure of the bride from her natal village; close up of shell money being paid as bride price; bride flanked by her female retainers; faces and ceremonial attire of celebrants; trays of food being carried into the wedding party; procession of bride and wedding party from home to water's edge where they embark in canoes; flotilla of canoes with exhuberant celebrants crossing lagoon; landing of the party and passage through a specially prepared entrance marking their symbolic incorporation into the husband's village; placement of mats, towels, and pillows by residents to form a walkway for the newly wed and party; the bridal party being greeted by loud drumming and boisterous shouts and cheers.

Legacy Keywords: Weddings practices associated with ; Marriage bride price transfer of Solomon Islands ; Canoes wedding party Solomon Islands ; Bride price shell money Solomon Islands ; Wealth shell money Solomon Islands ; Adornment necklaces flowers weddings Solomon Islands ; Food ceremony Solomon Islands ; Residence post-marital Solomon Islands ; Flowers as adornment Melanesia ; Ritual symbolic incorporation Solomon Islands ; Ceremony weddings Melanesia ; Language and culture ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Sulafo Atoll Lao lagoon ; Melanesians