Drums of Manipur

Duration: 500

Year Published: 1952

Complete Record: Traditional dance and culture of Manipur, India. Opens with certification letter from the Government of India Central Board of Film Censors. Music, people in traditional dress play drums and dance on stage, women in fancy clothes and veils dance outside, narrator explains where Manipur is (map is shown), airplane takes off, area viewed from above, temple, basket weaving, hand loom, industry run by women, social customs, textiles, marketplace, rice in basket, pots and pans of burnished metal, jewelry, beautiful women model necklaces, manipuri dancing costumes being made - hand stitched, little girl dances in front of older ones all in costume, group dances, wear headdress, self tattooing man, men pray (wear turbans), drum dancing by men (wear white), annual ceremony performed by men and women, festival / carnival, folk dancing, procession - all wear white, go to temple, inside temple and out they pray, girls prepare food and distribute to elders, play musical gourds, white clothes get muddy, cloth worn over head.