# A rite of passage

Producer, director, photography, John Marshall ; editors, Joyce Chopra, Timothy Asch, Frank Galvin Tilkay, a young boy of the Kalahari Desert, shoots his first wildebeest. First he tracks and finds the animal, then we see the cooking and eating of the meat, and the symbolic scarification. Filmed during an expedition in 1952/53

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1972
- Runtime: 15 min
- By: Marshall, John. drt
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ariteofpassage_201502)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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