The Himba 83.5.2 1972

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The Himba 83.5.2 1972

Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007

The Himba 83.5.2 1972

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1,977 ft (50 min) sound color video

Edited film of harvest time activities and marriage rites among the Himba, a pastoral Bantu people of southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia. Film illustrates womens' role in the domestic economy of the Himba and the various stages in a marriage ceremony. Film discusses stages in the seclusion of the bride, the ceremonial strangulation and butchering of an ox by Himba bachelors followed by a war dance and divination of the ox's entrails, seclusion of the groom's party adjacent to the village of bride's male relatives, the performance of <onjongu> dances at the wedding ceremony, and the incorporation of the bride into the village of her husband. Included are details on male and female adornment specific to jural status.

Supplementary materials: 1,3,5

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Southern Africa

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