| Description |
1 online resource (video file (29 min.)) : sound, color |
| Series |
Ethnographic video online, volume 1 |
| Summary |
Award-winning filmmaker and producer Caroline Yacoe's documentary explores the Tubuan, a secret male society of the Talai people of Duke of York Island in Papua New Guinea. Tubuan is also the name of the masks that are worn by the initiates. Because of the secret nature of the rites, the film only depicts the ceremonies and dances viewed by the entire village, not the forbidden ones. The narrator is Melanesian, and a female Talai villager tells of the threat of death to any female who witnesses the rituals of the society. A male villager explains the symbols painted on a Tubuan house, and a Christian priest relates what an initiate has told him about the importance of the ritual to him. These commentaries, along with ample images of the masks, give us an idea of how the ritual underlies Talai society. 'There is a man inside the mask, ' goes the saying in Tokpisin |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014) |
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This edition in English |
| Subject |
Initiation rites.
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Initiation rites -- Papua New Guinea
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Tolai (Melanesian people)
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Tolai (Melanesian people) -- Papua New Guinea
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Masks.
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Masks -- Papua New Guinea
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Manners and customs.
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Cultural Characteristics
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rites of passage.
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masks (costume)
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Initiation rites.
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Manners and customs.
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Masks.
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Tolai (Melanesian people)
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| SUBJECT |
Papua New Guinea
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Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Papua New Guinea.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Documentary films.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Yocoe, Caroline, film director, film producer.
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Chess, Charles, narrator.
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Takaku, William, narrator.
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