Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 14
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 from the finale of wedding ceremony as participants celebrate the installation of bride into her husband's village; shots of the ground strewn with debris from the trunks of banana plants which have been shredded for the occasion; men shredding portions of banana trunk with machetes, perambulating about the grounds and young girls sweep up the litter; canoes in a lagoon; holding pens for pigs built on stilts above the lagoons water; mid- to long-range shots of an elder male bedecked in ceremonial attire as he proceeds to ritually clear pathway for the wedding party using sprig of a sacred plant; interior shots of a house; narrator David Attenborough in the prow of a boat giving explanation of the names Europeans gave to the islands in Melanesia; his comments on the nature of head hunting in the Solomon Islands; loud drumming and boisterous shouts and cheers.

Legacy Keywords: Weddings practices associated with ; Rites of passage wedding Solomon Islands ; Canoes wedding party Solomon Islands ; Houses villages Solomon Islands ; Animal husbandry pigs pens Solomon Islands ; Adornment necklaces flowers weddings Solomon Islands ; Headhunting ideas about Solomon Islands ; Residence post-marital Solomon Islands ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Solomon Islands ; Melita Island Lao lagoon ; Melanesians