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.
A Curing Ceremony is of 0 hour(s) and 9 minute(s). It is Produced By: . It was released on 1969-01-01.
Genres: Documentary
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