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Iatmul (Neuguinea, Mittlerer Sepik) - Übermodellieren und Bemalen eines Schädels   [Original Title]

Iatmul (New Guinea, Middle Sepik) - Overmodelling and Painting a Skull   [Title Translation]
Country of Origin: Germany
Year of origin: 1974
Genre: Documentary Film
Locations of shooting: n/a

Credits
Distributor: IWF (Göttingen)
Author: Hermann Schlenker
Producer: Dore Kleindienst-Andrée
First released by: IWF (Göttingen)
Production company: Hermann Schlenker Filmproduktion (Königsfeld)
Editing: E. Fischer


Keywords: Iatmul, Ahnenkult, Brauchtum, Farbe, Farbstoff, Initiation, Initiation, Kleben, Klebstoff, Lebenskreis, Malen, Malerei, Menschenhaar, Ritus, Schädel, Übermodellieren eines Schädels, übermodellierter, ancestor worship, circle of life, colour, custom, dye, fixing, hair, human, initiation, over modelling, painting, skull, totem
During an initiation ceremony a man modells on a skull a mixture of clay. He taps a tree for some tree-sap. The mixture on the skull consists of earth, tree-sap, and burned chalk. Different shells like cowrie shells and conus shells and human hair fixed on the skull. Finally he paints the overmodelled skull with black, yellow and red.

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