Malekula (1975.1.1 - 16)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.1 - 16
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Müller, Kal, 1939-
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 1: Malekula films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color silent; 1,052 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970-1974
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: Footage shot in the Lendombwey region of south central during 1974 among the Nambas. Footage includes: scenes in the Namba ceremonial ground showing "marionettes" (temes nevimbur) behind a thatched pallisade in a puppet theatre type of action; male paricipants carrying the marionettes and other life-size funerary effigies (rhambaramb) from behind the pallisade to a position adjacent to dance ground; positioning of the mortuary effigies and close-up shots of these figures; men leading tusker pigs onto the ceremonial ground for sacrifice; killing of the pigs with old bayonnettes affixed to poles.