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⏲ Duration: 34 min 30 sec ✓ Published: 15-Feb-2022
Description: In a remote part of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, the Umeda people eke out a difficult living from the sago swamps and primary rain forest that surround them.nnThis film was made in 1978 to record a ceremony that the Umeda people had performed up annually up until that time.The ceremony, the Ida, dramatised the Umeda relationship to the forest and celebrated their continuing survival. It was in essence a fertility ritual focussing on a complex metamorphosis of figures representi