Eipo (West New Guinea, Central Highlands) - »Mote«, a Visiting Feast at Munggona

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10.3203/IWF/E-2803eng (DOI)

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E 2803

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1976

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Film, 16 mm, LT, 424 m ; F, 39 min

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Ethnology

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Documentation/Report

Abstract

Preparation and celebration of a feast lasting several days, to which guests from the Heime Valley (trading and marriage partners of the Eipo) are invited: Fetching of the bag, gathering of garden fruits and fire wood, shooting of pigs, preparation and charging of earth ovens, dancing and singing (see also film E 2799), arrival and opening dances of the festively decorated guests (exhibitionism), sharing of the feast.

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