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Description

1. 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (4 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. Filmed in the village of Barama. Excerpts from the "darangaba" mourning dances. Men and women move in two counterclockwise circles, the men brandishing weapons and pantomiming attacks.

Series statement

1. Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1360

Subject

1. Weapon dances
2. Death dances
3. Funeral dances
4. Ritual and ceremonial dancing > Africa
5. Dance > Sudan
6. Kenga (African people)
7. Motion pictures > Kenga, Zentralsudan, Süd-Wadai

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 1628

Note

1. Filmed in 1964. Produced and distributed by the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen, Germany.
2. English title: Kenga, Central Sudan, South Wadai; Mourning dances "darangaba". For a descriptive pamphlet in German, with English summary, see: *MGS (General) Encyclopaedia cinematographica.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Title

1. Kenga (Zentralsudan, Süd-Wadai) [electronic resource] : Trauertänze "darangaba".

Imprint

1. 1964.

Series

1. Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1360

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

1. Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2326

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Motion pictures. Kenga, Zentralsudan, Süd-Wadai.
2. Kenga (African people)

Local subject

1. Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- Africa.
2. Funeral dances.
3. Death dances.
4. Weapon dances.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDF 1628