The Gourdmen Of New Guinea

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Nomad Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: A documentary study of the Gourdmen, a primitive tribe of New Guinea. Includes scenes of ritual dances as performed by the people of the entire villages wearing their body paints and feathered headdress, dancing and feasting for days to honor their dead and call upon their gods for fertility.