The Red Bowmen

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.

Average Score : 55

Status: Released

Release Date: 1978-01-01

Geners Documentary

Production Companies Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios

Production Countries Papua New Guinea,

Run time: 58 minutes

Budget: --

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