Modderfeest side B2
A Philips LP 13 tape, speed 9,5 cm/s, 4 channel mono, recorded by Jules Camps OFM. It is a recording of a ritual, a hotaly festivity, a mud festivity for a girl after her first menstruation, in this case Milige Logo in the village of Sagatnokoma 17 March 1973. Jules Camps made also a movie of this occasion Hotaly Milige Logo see https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/nl/FI/40/1 and another movie of an alike ritual Hotaly Pupukhe https://www.papuaerfgoed.org/nl/FI/40/52.  During the festivity women and girls engage in a mud game, hesi japin, and try to put mud on the heads and in the faces of the others and become totally covered with mud. The other part on side B1 and B2 is called on the cover segetabin of as yet unknown meaning. All these parts were recorded in the Baliem Valley in West Papua and the language is the local Dani language. The last part on side A2 is a recording of a speech in Dutch that Jules Camps gave at the opening of an exhibition of the artist Victor IV (Walter Carl Gluck) and primitive art of Africa and New Guinea in the Rank Xerox Social Centre at Venray from 7 September to 5 October 1972.
Side A1 is 42’06, Side A 2 is 14’51, Side B1 is 46’27 and Side B2 is 45’25

Band 25 Modderfeest Kant B2

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