Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 1
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 documents a ceremonial pig feast including scenes of a ceremonial compound, "tuskers" (large pigs) being prepared for sacrifice; male dancers perambulating through the compound; oratory by the bigman convening the ceremony; tethering of the tuskers to trees in a small grove of palms, boar skulls wrapped in plaited palm trash affixed to the palms; male participants dancing with spears; shots of the cooking pits which use large heated stones; villagers encircling the compound; narrative by David Attenborough.

Legacy Keywords: Ceremony feasts redistribution ; Animal husbandry pigs ; Cooking fire pits ; Food preparation ceremonial ; Drumming dancing ceremony ; Speech oratory ritual leaders ; Ritual rites of intensification ; Oratory bigmen Melanesia ; Music ceremony ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Vanuatu ; Melanesia ; Melanesians