Nguné Elü : the day the moon menstruated / Associação Indigena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Video in the Villages, Núcleo Transformações Indigena-Museu Nacional present ; a video by Takumã Kuikuro, Maricá Kuikuro
Published
Watertown MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007
Produced during a Video in the Villages workshop in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse (Indigenous Park of Xingu, Brazil). When a lunar eclipse takes place during the workshop, the villagers explain in their own words what happens during an eclipse, when moon menstruates, and about the celebrations and rituals that take place. The post-eclipse ceremonies include singing, dancing, vomiting, wrestling, and sacrificial rituals
Credits
Directors, Takumã Kuikuro, Maricá Kuikuro ; producer, Vincent Carelli
Event
Originally produced in 2004
Notes
In Portuguese and Kuikuro with English credits and subtitles
