Kwaheri: Vanishing Africa
★ 5.5 · 1964 · 80m · Documentary
Early Mondo film featuring primitive rituals, animals being butchered, unusual birth defects, and a legit trepanation scene.
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The Many Taboos of Death - Part 4
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