Hey guys, a while back I was watching "Tribal Life" on The Travel Channel. Anyway, they were documenting the Namal Tribe (not sure just exactly where they are situated, 'cause my computer's really sluggish at the moment and making it hard for me to even perform a google search!) who perform a ritual with the men whereby they gather to carve effigies of humming birds and "activate" them by dying them or decorating them with a red pigment culled from a local fruit; afterwards this image is regarded as being, for all intents and purposes, alive!

I would like to find out any scholastic/ethnographic info. about this tribe's practice that I can locate, if anyone could aid me, due to an article I am presently working on (well, I'm still in the researching/out-lining phase) about cult-images. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anmy reliable data about this on-line!

Thanks!

Take Care,
Wade