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Clip description
The narrator explains over black-and-white drawings that the missionaries frowned on what they saw as a heathen custom of women and men ‘riding the waves of heaven’ and the activity of surfing languished for a time. But surfing eventually again flourished in Tahiti as we see a modern-day man surf the waves.
Curator’s notes
The drawings are beautifully done and suit the film. The narrator claims that the birthright of the Tahitians is the art of balancing one’s body and mind and being in tune with nature and the sea. It’s a beautiful way of describing the potential of surfing.
