The Human Face of the Pacific Atoll Life in Kiribati

The Republic of Kiribati is one of the most isolated places in the Pacific and because of this it has been possible for its people to retain much of their traditional way of life In this film made on Tabiteuea Island four years after independence we witness a special threeday ritual dating from precolonial times in which Manerrua a schoolgirl of 14 celebrates her first menstruation