Film
A Curing Ceremony
1969 · 9m · Documentary
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Overview
Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance, without the stimulus of dancing, in an attempt to cure her. Sha//ge lives but the baby is stillborn.
Crew
- John MarshallDirector
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 1969
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Documentary
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