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    The film documents traditional rituals and cultures of ethnic groups in Indonesia. It profiles the Sumba Island Horse Warriors ritual which combines dance, battle and human sacrifice. It also examines the Asmat Tribe who were formerly headhunters and cannibals. The film provided new information about these groups, such as the Asmat Tribe believing they are the "True People" and the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller who was studying them. The student found the rituals interesting and related Indonesian cultures to those of Native Americans, noting similarities in rituals between the groups.

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    The film documents traditional rituals and cultures of ethnic groups in Indonesia. It profiles the Sumba Island Horse Warriors ritual which combines dance, battle and human sacrifice. It also examines the Asmat Tribe who were formerly headhunters and cannibals. The film provided new information about these groups, such as the Asmat Tribe believing they are the "True People" and the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller who was studying them. The student found the rituals interesting and related Indonesian cultures to those of Native Americans, noting similarities in rituals between the groups.

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    The film documents traditional rituals and cultures of ethnic groups in Indonesia. It profiles the Sumba Island Horse Warriors ritual which combines dance, battle and human sacrifice. It also examines the Asmat Tribe who were formerly headhunters and cannibals. The film provided new information about these groups, such as the Asmat Tribe believing they are the "True People" and the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller who was studying them. The student found the rituals interesting and related Indonesian cultures to those of Native Americans, noting similarities in rituals between the groups.

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    INDO 1011

    SPRING 2009

    Please fill this out while you watch the film. If you know Indonesian, you may write in
    Indonesian as well.

    REFLECTION ON FILMS

    Date: January 29, 2009


    Your name: Chandler Routman
    The title of the film: Dance of the Warriors

    Name the islands or ethnic groups that you remember from the film:
    • The islands that were mentioned are Komodo Bay, Sumba Island, Bali and New
    Guinea. The ethnic groups that were mentioned are the Asmat Tribe and the
    Sumba Island Horse Warriors.
    What new information did you learn from this film?
    • Sumba Island is also known as Sandalwood Island, but ironically enough there are
    no more sandalwood tress left on the island. The Sumba Island Horse Warriors
    have a ritual that combines a form of dance, battle and sacrifice. During this ritual
    the participants, while riding on horses, throw blunt spears at their opponents until
    the first blood is drawn. The first person to bleed becomes a human sacrifice. The
    people Asmat Tribe of Indonesian New Guinea are referred to as the “True
    People”. Long ago they used to be headhunters as well as cannibals. Interestingly
    enough while studying the Asmat people, Michael Rockefeller (of the New York
    Rockefeller’s) vanished. Some people think that the Asmat people killed and ate
    him.
    How did you relate this film to any other history of some countries that you know about?
    Please explain.
    • The culture of the Asmat people is very different from most European cultures. In
    European cultures, there is no proof of canabalism or of headhunting being
    practiced. In the United States, there are some similiarites between the Native
    Indonesian cultures and the Native American cultures, especially in practiced
    rituals.
    What did you find interesting about this film?
    • I found the rituals of the Horse Warriors very interesting, as well as the the culture
    of the Asmat people.
    If you follow any news about Indonesia at all, what are the things that remain the same as
    what the movie portrays, and if there are some changes, what are they?
    • N/A
    What questions do you have about this film, or about today’s Indonesia?
    • I wonder if anyone actually knows the truth about what happened to Michael
    Rockefeller.

    Margaretha Sudarsih
    Department of Asian Languages & Civilizations
    University of Colorado-Boulder

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