Film by father Jules Camps OFM, recorded in the 1970s in his work area in the highlands of Irian Jaya. Funeral Rites, Part III. Recordings of the leave-taking and the cremation (see also Funeral Rites I, Camps 30).
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III: Cremation Jiwika, December 1974. The deceased is lying on a [platform], in the village. Jatak armbands are graped over the body. Something is [said or sung]. Je stones are put near the body. [Leave-taking]. Men carry bundles of [grass]. The jetak bands are held high and [distributed]. The [platform] is dismantled and the body carried away. The funeral pyre is lit. The body is put on it, more wood put on top. [Blood is sprinkled on the wood]. [Platform] with jetak bands and a group of people sitting before it. Also see info film 224 IV: Determining cause of death; rats and mice examined. Mice put on [banana leaf], cut open, entrails removed. Mice are strung together and entrails hung on a branch. >> See contents info film 211
