The Red Bowmen 1978 Directed by Chris Owen
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.
Country
USA
Production Country
Papua New Guinea
Gnere
Documentary
Production Company
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios
Release Date 1 January 1978
58 mins
