Basic Info
Release: January 01, 1954
Runtime: 17 min
Status: Released
The Na-khi Hăr-la-llü Dance
1954
17 min
Overview
The Na-khi people of Yunnan demonstrate the ritual dance for the propitiation of suicide, expressly for Rock to film. The ceremony features dancers moving around an altar containing paper dolls representing suicides and doing ritual battle with demons. Title cards explain the steps of the ceremony. Produced in 1954 using footage filmed by Rock in 1928.
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Documentary
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Cast
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Joseph F. Rock
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