Ausschnitte einer Begräbnisfeier im Dorf Barama: Singen der traditionellen Klagelieder vor dem Gehöft des Verstorbenen und vereinzeltes Tanzen, Ausheben eines Grabes außerhalb des Dorfes, Trauertänze zum traditionellen Festorchester, bestehend aus Flöten, Rasseln und Trommeln, und Aufbruch des Leichenzuges.

The film shows excerpts from a Kenga-Barana burial. Early in the morning several woman of the village have assembeld at the entrance-gate to the homestead of the deceased. They sing the traditional mourning-songs, some woman dance. Near relatives of the deceased have shaved their heads and put ashes on them as a sign of mouring. Many of the female mourners wear mourning belts of cotton strips. The men are sitting in a shelter and mourn silently, two of them sewing the shroud. In a reaped field outside the village the gave is dug. In the afternoon the great mourning-dances take place. They are accompained by the orchestra which consists of flutes, rattles and drums. All the people are in festive attire, the men are armed. With little interruptions they dance all the afternoon up to the burial. The film shows two dances completely. The dances stop when the funeral procession breaks up. Bearers carry the corpse prepared for the burial out of the homestead, in this moment women and children wail, the men brandish their weapons. Most of the people join the funeral procession.