LEADER 00000ngm a22004214i 4500 001 kan3393988 003 CaSfKAN 006 m o c 007 cr una---unuuu 007 vz uzazuu 008 180507p20181979cau084 o vleng d 028 52 3393988|bKanopy 035 (OCoLC)1035145884 040 VDU|beng|erda|cVDU 245 00 Madarrpa Funeral at Gurka'wuy 264 1 |bNational Film and Sound Archive of Australia,|c1979. 264 1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming, |c2018. 300 1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): |bdigital, .flv file, sound 306 012420 336 two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 500 Title from title frames. 500 Film 500 In Process Record. 511 0 Ian Dunlop, Dundiwuy Wanambi, Narritjin Maymuru 518 Originally produced by National Film and Sound Archive of Australia in 1979. 520 In 1976, Ian Dunlop was invited by Dundiwuy Wanambi, a leader of the Marrakulu clan, to Gurka'wuy on Trial Bay in the Gulf of Carpentaria. He wanted Film Australia to record the first major Marrakulu ceremony to be held at Gurka'wuy since its recent establishment as a clan settlement. While they were there, a baby boy died. The Madarrpa men, including the child's father and Dundiwuy, asked for the funeral to be filmed.. Mortuary rites of the Yolngu are extremely complex. Despite some practical modifications to traditional ceremonies as a result of life on mission stations, ritual remains extremely strong.. Because the Madarrpa funeral at Gurka'wuy is for a young child, and not an adult, the ceremony is relatively short. It is, nevertheless, still complex. Every part of the ritual is rich in symbolism and has many meanings. Because the deeper meanings are secret and cannot be revealed in this film it is not easy to explain the significance of much of the ritual. However, this film is a detailed study of the funeral ceremony. It highlights the complex connections of people of different clans. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 546 In English 650 0 Indigenous peoples--Cross-cultural studies 655 4 Australian Studies 655 7 Education films. |2lcgft 710 2 National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (Firm),|4dst 710 2 Kanopy (Firm),|4dst 914 kan3393988
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