The Kawelka Ongka's Big Moka

Episode number 2 of Series “Disappearing world”.
In the West Highlands of Papua New Guinea there are many tribes. One of them is the Kawelka. The most prominent leader or ‘big man’ of the Kawelka tribe is called Ongka. For five years the Kawelka, driven on by Ongka, have been struggling to assemble a huge gift (a Moka) to give to a neighbouring tribe. For Ongka, assembling and giving this gift is more important than anything in his life. But when a big man dies suddenly in Ongka’s enemy tribe things start to go wrong.

Credits

director

Charles Nairn

production company

Granada Television International

Language

English

Duration

00:52:00:00

Colour

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

36950

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Papua New Guinea - Social life and customs

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain

Sound/audio

Sound

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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