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A title runs over the image of a lone building: 'Muralaguah Buai Cultural Centre, Wickham’. The busy preparation of the celebration of 'The coming of the light’. People coming together, music and dancing. A Torres Strait woman tells how the Torres Strait Islanders are civilized because of the arrival of Christianity to the Islands.
Curator’s notes
The Coming of the Light is an important ceremony to the Torres Strait Islander people, and this clip shows the continuation of that tradition, which was taken to the Torres Strait on 1 July 1871 by the Reverend Samuel MacFarlane of the London Missionary Society.
