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Eipo (West New Guinea, Central Highlands) - Practices on the Occasion of the Ceremonial Handing-over of a Forehead Band Made of Nassa-Snails

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Eipo (West New Guinea, Central Highlands) - Practices on the Occasion of the Ceremonial Handing-over of a Forehead Band Made of Nassa-Snails
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Eipo (West-Neuguinea, Zentrales Hochland) - Vorgänge anläßlich der zermoniellen Übergabe einer Stirnbinde aus Nassa-Schnecken
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IWF SignatureE 2457
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Production Year1976

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IWF Technical DataFilm, 16 mm, LT, 291 m ; F, 27 min

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Accompanied by his relatives and friends a young man of sixteen has arrived for a visit from the neighbouring valley to Munggona, where he has been initiated a short time ago. The purpose of this visit therefore implies the ceremonial compensation for the initiation. As a gift the young man hands over a broad forehead band covered with thin slices of the shells of Nassa-snails to the man who had taken care of him during his initiation. As a return present he gets some pig's fat.
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