Word: mock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generally has two male figures, one standing on the other's head. The buttress root serves the upper figure as a gigantic, openwork phallic symbol. In a final climactic ceremony, the ancestor poles are set up near the men's house, and the warriors stage a fierce mock battle followed by a wild dance in which the women attack...
...Baseball should be fun," Veeck insists, and he was good for a gag a minute. He staged a mock invasion from outer space...
...Above-The Mud Below. French Adventurer Pierre-Dominique Gais-seau took his camera into uncharted New Guinea territory and brought back a grittily absorbing documentary record of headhunters, mock birth rituals, and curious relics of the Stone...
...Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to mock-birth rituals...
...headhunters prove curiously unsavage. Poling their dugout canoes like racing shells along the jungle streams, decked in white-feathered headdresses, and holding their spears in light-fingered readiness, they are pictorially and organically in harmony with their elemental surroundings. Among the sociological curios filmed by the expedition, a mock birth ritual is the most dramatic, with two peacemaking clans rhythmically grunting out the labor pains over two couples covered with sago leaves who are each being "reborn" into the other's neighboring tribe as a peace pledge...