Man Blong Custom (Outtakes)
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1975.5.1 - 7
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 shots in highland Malekula of ritually attired male drummers playing slit gongs in an enclosure adjacent to a mortuary shrine; close ups of the drums and drummers; men drinking water from coconuts; man wearing a large mask and garlanded with flowers and colorful leaves about the head, shoulders, and buttocks; masked figure circumambulating around the enclosure where slit gongs are placed; David Attenborough explaining the social and ritual significance of the enclosure to the men's house, the species of plants grown there, and the social and spatial demarcations at the site; pigs foraging around a habitation.

Legacy Keywords: Mortuary practices shrine drumming ; Music drumming ; Musical instruments slit gongs ; Adornment flowers burial rites ; Mutilation nose bones ; Masks adornment ; Houses men's houses Yamao ; Animal husbandry pigs ecology ; Ritual mortuary practices ; Garb ritual adornment ; Language and culture ; Oceania ; New Hebrides ; Vanuatu ; Malekula (Vanuatu) ; Melanesians