Forge film 10 - Tambaran cult: male initiates parade in central plaza wearing elaborate headdresses

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Male initiates (wakan ara) wearing elaborate headdresses and other finery, parade through central plaza of an Abelam village. They are accompanied by other men who beat kundu drums, blow shells, and sing. Women in crowds of onlookers approach with pearlshells. Initiates stand on sloped platform. Men without headdresses charge around central plaza with spears and lighted torches. A few much-younger boys enter plaza, wearing headdresses and other signifiers of initiation stage.

• circa 1963

• Forge, Anthony

Located in Series 10) Audiovisual Materials, subseries B) Films.

This digital sound file was recorded from original audiotape in the Anthony Forge Papers (Box 44).

Color film,16 mm, silent

Film 9 includes all of this content.

• East Sepik Province (Papua New Guinea)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands

• Abelam (Papua New Guinean people)
• Body marking
• Dance
• Haus tambaran
• Headdresses
• Initiation rites
• Musical instruments
• Rites and ceremonies

• video

Online finding aid

• Anthony Forge Papers

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. Anthony Forge Papers. MSS 411. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-16