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The Red Bowmen
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Filmmaker Name:
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Chris Owen
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Film Length:
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58 min
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Film Year:
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1983
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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1980s
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Oceania
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Subject:
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Music, Dance & Theater
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Every year, a ritual known as Ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of the cassowaries.
An ethnography by anthropologist Alfred Gell, Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries, complements the film.
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