The Red Bowmen

• Movies
• 1978-01-01
• EN
• Released
• 0h 58m
• Documentary

• 5.5
• 2

Production

Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios

Storyline

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.