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Himba wedding 83.5.3 1969   Creator:  Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007 Smithsonian Institution Title:  Himba wedding 83.5.3 1969 Phy. Description:  1,200 ft (33 min) sound color video Summary:  Edited film of wedding rites among the Himba, a pastoral Bantu people of Kackoveld in Namibia. Film documents the taking of a second wife by a Himba man and discusses the marriage in connection with intervillage kinship relations, bridewealth, and polygymy. Film includes: the adornment and ritualization surrounding <zacirwa> (seclusion of the bride), customary strangulation and butchering of a bridewealth ox and the reading of its viscera, <onjongu> dancing by guests, ritual capture of the bride by groom's age-mates, and ceremonial incorporation of the bride into the homestead of her husband. General Note:  Supplementary materials: 3 title from credits (published work) -- archival collection Restrictions:  Information on reproduction and fees available from Human Studies Film Archives Culture:  Himba (African people) Herero (African people) -- Himba Himba (African people) Subject-Topical:  Marriage -- rites of passage -- ritual phases Food preparation -- butchering -- ritual -- cooking Divination -- butchering -- augury Adornment -- headdress -- marriage -- nubility Bridewealth -- marriage -- animal sacrifice -- kinship relationships Avoidance -- groom -- mother-in-law Dancing -- celebration -- mimicry -- feasting Rites of passage -- seclusion -- bride -- veil -- bridal hut Symbols -- ritual -- bride -- prosperity -- ox -- stomach fat Marriage -- bride capture -- kinship relationships Residence -- post-marital -- virilocal Food consumption -- ceremony -- commensality -- marriage Feasting -- marriage -- groom -- seclusion -- age mates Animal husbandry -- pastoral activities -- cattle -- wealth Subject - Geographical:  Namibia -- Himba Kackoveld (Namibia) Africa Subject-Name:  Zacriwa bride Naango bride's mother Vesenga groom Cakoya bride's father's brother Repository Loc:  Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, MD Local Number:  HSFA 83.5.3 Co-Creator:  National Anthropological Film Center Item information Repository Call No.   Human Studies Film Archives HSFA 83.5.3 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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