1 Film reel (23 minutes, one film reel (823 feet) assembled film roll 26 (camera rolls 51,52), 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1972
Scope and Contents:
Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: Afghan nomad encampment next to dry river bed; scenes of activity around tents; boy bridling and saddling a camel in preparation to break camp; men, women, and children collapsing tents, preparing gear and belongingsfor loading on camels; securing loads upon camels; lead camels with ornate bridles and tack; departure of caravan of camels from site.
Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Nomads habitations Afghanistan ; Saddles camels loads Afghanistan ; Camels caravans loads Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Threshing wheat threshing floor Afghanistan ; Gardens tillage Afghanistan ; Household items utensils blankets lanterns Afghanistan ; Division of labor by sex Afghanistan
Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 16
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Collection Citation:
American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Film reel (29 minutes, color silent; 1,029 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
circa 1950
Scope and Contents:
Footage shot by Laura Boulton in the Nilgiri Hills (otherwise known as the Blue Hills) of India among the Todas. Shots depict scenes of daily Toda life in and around their distinctive hamlets and houses, examples of family life, traditional greetings and deference shown to men by women who kiss the feet of Toda men, Todas herding and miling their cattle, examples of Toda dance and musical instruments, and a funeral at which a bull is wrestled to the ground by men.
Legacy Keywords: Architecture houses Toda Nilgiri Hills, India ; Dances Toda India ; Musical instruments Toda horns drums Nilgiri Hills, India ; Villages Toda Nilgiri Hills, India ; Greetings kissing of feet Toda ; Deference greetings Toda India ; Pastoralism cattle Toda India ; Funerals bull wrestling Toda ; Division of labor by sex Toda ; Hair treatment of Toda India ; Pilgrims festivals mela India ; Transportation oxen Toda ; Peasants Todas India
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1987.9.11 - 6
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Collection Citation:
Laura Boulton films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film by Hillary Harris and George Breidenbach made among the eastern Nuer of Ethiopia, a Nilotic cattle-herding people. The cinematic construction of the film seeks to convey a holistic feel for Nuer lifeways, particularly the intimacy between the Nuer and their cattle. Narration provides anthropological accounts of such events as a dispute over bridewealth, a ghost marriage, and a gar (male initiation) ceremony in which two boys receive forehead incisions. Also included is a subtitled interview in which an old man offers his own comments on Nuer life and customs.
Legacy Keywords: Animal husbandry cattle ; Seasonal migrations cattle camps courtship ; Herding cattle milking ; Transhumance cattle migrations (583-720 roll 2) ; Housebuilding wattle-and-daub thatching cow dung (1026-62 roll 1) ; Rites of passgae manhood scarification "Gar" ; Marriage spirits kin relationships artificial "ghost marriage" ; Divorce bride price cattle infertility ; Households domestic activities women ; Food preparation women mortar-and-pestle ; Scarification ethos adornment jewelry crafts ; Prophets "leopard skin chief" propitiation disease epidemics animal sacrifice procession ; Animal sacrifice butchering kinship ; Food quest annual cycle animal husbandry fishing agriculture ; Fishing spears wet season ; Music ceremony drumming dancing ; Cattle households fuel cow dung ; Hygiene cattle cow dung ashes urine daily ablutions ; Naming male identity cattle ; Councils speech disputation kin groups ; Ritual male initiates ritual specialists manhood ; Religious beliefs cattle invocations blessing cow dung ashes ; Spirit possession illness ritual expiation ; Epidemics children small pox ; Nakedness normal garb ; Special garments ceremony ; Effigies clay cattle children ; Tobacco smoking pipes ; Adornment hair styles jewelry facial painting ; Pastoral activities division of labor by sex ; Language and culture ; Ethiopia Nuer Nilotic ; Baro River Ethiopia ; Africa ; Ethiopia ; Nuer (African people) ; Nilotic peoples ; Ethiopians
Local Number:
HSFA 1984.19.6
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
CRM/McGraw-Hill educational films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee
Film reels (1 hour 40 minutes, black-and-white color sound; 4000 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1972-1973
Scope and Contents:
Full film record of a research film project documenting the Himba, a pastoral Bantu people of southwestern Angola and northwestern Namibia. Footage features documentation of a rainmaking ceremony with animal sacrifices to the ancestors and the annointing of ombale stones (rain shrines), the tending of cattle herds and the problems of drought, various musical performances, a baby-naming ceremony, and techniques of female hairdressing and braiding. Edited films THE HIMBA and HIMBA WEDDING were produced from this project. Includes associated texts, sound recordings, and production logs.
Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Ritual propitiation rainmaking ; Rainmaking magic sympathetic rocks water ; Animal sacrifice divination entrails ; Ritual annointing stones sacred ; Rainmaking ceremony descent group ancestors animal sacrifice ; Animal sacrifice suffocation blood ; Singing males praise songs cattle ; Shrines sacred rocks "ombale stones" ; Adornment women hair styles ; Clothing traditional leather sheepskin ; Hair styles sex status life cycle social identity ; Pastoral activities seasonal migration ecology ; Musical instruments horn pluriarch ; Music songs cattle praises oral history ; Naming infant rites of passage ; Ceremony naming annointing clan ; Inheritance cattle ceremony baby naming ; Milk purification sacred cattle ritual tasting ; Curing singing women trance ; Adornment necklaces wristbands women ; Adornment hair styles women braiding ; Hair styles hair dressing braiding grease wood ash red ochre ; Tillage division of labor by sex hoe ; Hair styles boys clan membership ; Animal husbandry division of labor by sex herding milking ; Seasonal migrations ; Rites and ceremonies
Local Number:
HSFA 1983.5.1
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Gordon Gibson films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee
Film reels (58 minutes, color sound; 2100 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1971
Scope and Contents:
Full film record of a research film project documenting the Zimba, a pastoral Bantu people of southwestern Angola. Footage documents the organization of Zimba homesteads, role of women in the domestic economy, and men engaged in pastoral activities. Sequences include: women threshing, winnowing, and stamping millet (for cereal and beer); milking cows; watering cattle; weaving baskets; and making fences to protect their fields. Men are shown churning milk and herding and watering cattle.
Legacy Keywords: Visima ; Kapupu ; Omusupi ; Kaumbila ; Luhuna ; Balundu ; Kawiyu ; Language and culture ; Domestic life ; Women Africa ; Division of labor by sex threshing grain millet ; Food preparation winnowing grain ; Basketry winnowing ; Speech greetings ; Domestic activities food preparation milk ; Food preparation graineries ; Alcohol beermaking grain ; Adornment rites of passage headdress ; Adornment women hair styles ; Pastoral activities watering ; Hair styles males females life cycle social identity ; Children food preparation ; Tillage fences division of labor by sex women ; Tillage women ; Tools agricultural ; Trade tools textiles ; Acculturation dress clothing ; Music tillage rhythms ; Food preparation mortar-and-pestle ; Division of labor by sex tillage ; Angola Zimba Damba Region
Local Number:
HSFA 1983.5.4
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Gordon Gibson films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee
Outtakes from edited film shows men and women in the process of thatching the roof on a new structure in their homestead. Shots of a man doing the actual weaving and tying of thatch to the pole rafters of a roof assisted by women who are carrying large bundes of cut grass from a field and tying off smaller bundles from which the man works on the roof. These scenes are followed by footage of a rainstorm with shots of rain beating off a grass roof.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Family kin support work ; Housebuilding roofers ; Roofers ; Residence compounds ; Houses ; Division of labor by sex ; Architecture, Domestic
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 10)
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Collection Citation:
Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Outtakes from edited film shows a homestead including men washing up in the yard with a basin of water after work, eating, men erecting the pole framework of a house, women and young girls drawing water at a common pipe, men cutting a log into planks in a saw pit, and cloths drying in the sun.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Bathing pan bath ; Eating ; Food preparation cooking ; Housebuilding carpentry ; Houses interior ; Carpentry ; Housebuilding materials ; Tools two-man saw saw pit ; Division of labor by sex carrying water ; Clothing hygiene ; Language and culture
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 14)
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Outtakes from edited film shows a number of homesteads and along a roadway including scenes of local transportation and roadside activity, the roadway as a conduit for foot traffic, passage of people to/from local market driving sheep and cows; homestead scenes of children washing dishes and kitchen utensils, women drawing water from pipe near roadside, long shots of countryside; interview footage with three local men about land shortage, the need for family planning, the influence of extended family members on family planning.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Transportation foot cars ; Roads use of ; Dishwashing children ; Clothes washing ; Housebuilding materials ; Division of labor by sex carrying water ; Language and culture
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 15)
Collection Restrictions:
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Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Outtakes from edited film includes scenes around roadside, shots next to a local bar, women drawing water and socializing around a common pipe, taking transport to market, buying and selling in local marketplace from, and interaction with hucksters in the market.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Division of labor by sex carrying water ; Tavens social life ; Butchering ; Taxi-cab transportation ; Markets vendors ; Agricultural crops markets ; Vendors produce measurements ; Language and culture
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 17)
Collection Restrictions:
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Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Outtakes from edited film shows women engaged in a number of domestic and subsistence activities including drawing and carrying water, winnowing maize, washing clothes, carrying firewood. Also shots of man having his maize machine ground at a local mill in the village. Woman is shown with the rabbits she raises for sale. Interview with a father about the future he anticipates for his children and those of his brothers.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Division of labor by sex carrying water ; Firewood gathering of ; Basketry winnowing ; Food preparation winnowing grinding maize ; Mills corn flour ; Milling machines ; Animal husbandry rabbits ; Children family size ideas about ; Language and culture
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 21)
Collection Restrictions:
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Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Outtakes from an edited film showing domestic and agricultural activities. Includes scenes of women carrying pails of water on their heads, carrying babies wrapped to their backs, nursing babies, cultivating plots around homesteads, weeding, hoeing corn fields. Also shots of house interiors with family photographs displayed on the walls. Photo of Jomo Kenyatta rounds out family portraits. Long shots provide a sense of the checkered pasturage-field layout of the Maragoli area.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Animal husbandry pasture goats cattle ; Division of labor by sex women ; Tillage hoe ; Nursing mothers and infants ; Family mothers children ; Children domestic activities ; Agricultural tools hoe machete ; Language and culture ; Domestic life ; Architecture, Domestic
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 7)
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Film reel (10 minutes, color sound; 360 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1974
Scope and Contents:
Edited film produced from the 1971 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and Upper Orinoco rivers. The laborious and tedious daily work of collecting wood by Yanomamo women is revealed in this film. A woman is shown chopping a large log as her children play nearby. The day's worth of wood is loaded into a large basket and the burden slung on a tumpline from the woman's forehead for the return to the village.
Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Chores chopping firewood Yanomamo Venezuela ; Division of labor sexual Yanomamo ; Ecology tropical rainforest Venezuela ; Division of labor by sex Yanomamo ; Firewood gathering of Yanomamo ; Play children Yanomamo
Local Number:
HSFA 1984.16.8
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Timothy Asch and Napolean Chagnon films of the Yanomamo, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee
Footage shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Pt. Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Footage known under the title TIP TOP OF THE EARTH: ARCTIC ALASKAN ESKIMO EDUCATIONAL SERIES. Includes subtitles and intertitles explaining shots. Cassette includes sections of films entitled "Eskimo Reindeer Industry", "Eskimo Seal Hunting", "Eskimo Whaling, part II", and "Scenes of the Midnight Sun". Depicted are activities associated with reindeer herding such as building an "ice pen" (coral) in which to rope, count, and tag animals; butchering reindeer; scenes pertaining to seal hunting by solitary hunters; seal retreived with a line after being shot with rifle; difficulties of returning over ice ridges with prey; dog team pulling beardedter being shot with rifle; difficulties of returning over ice ridges with prey; dog team pulling bearded seal from water's edge; women skinning seal with ulu; removing blood and intestines from seal; sledding whale meat to ice cellars; drying measevere weather; scenes around a whaling encampment; butchering a whale at water's edge; removing the jaw of whale to extract baleen; removing and cleaning baleen strips to be used as trade goods; whaling spot--nela-ka-tuk--tossing people on stretched walrus hide. Views of archeological excavations at Pt. Barrow showing sketal and cranial remains. which illustrate differences in communal life; Eskimo with dog team and sleds; the Pt. Barrow community gathered around their church; dances performed by men to dramatize everyday events; man paddling a kayak and demonstrating technique of the "eskimo roll"; children's games and walrus hide toss; Various activities associated with whaling.
Legacy Keywords: Dogs as means of transportation Alaska ; Sleds as transportation Alaska ; Guns used in seal hunting Alaska ; Boats use in hunting Alaska ; Hunting guns Alaska ; Food quest hunting fishing whaling Alaska ; Food preparation butchering drying Alaska ; Food preservation techniques of Alaska ; Dancing drumming ; Ecology seasonal movements Alaska ; Dancing drums Alaska ; Food communal distribution Alaska ; Animal husbandry reindeer Alaska ; Herding reindeer Alaska ; Whaling butchering Alaska ; Hides preparation of use of Alaska ; Sewing of hides Alaska ; Corrals reindeer herding ; Division of labor by sex ; Work groups butchering of whales ; Games children ; Language and culture
Local Number:
HSFA 1986.5.1 - 2
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Tip top of the Earth: Arctic Alaskan Eskimo Educational Series, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Edited film reel (reel 5) includes shots of a native village which includes women with woven mat headcovers, interior shots of a men's house showing sleeping quarters, ritual and domestic paraphenalia; scenes of men smoking tobacco and details footage documenting the stages and sexual division of labor involved in making native tapioca known as "sac-sac". This includes shots of males felling and de-barking a sago palm, pulverizing its pith with special mallets, women carrying the pounded sago to a strainer/washing trough, decanting the sago starch, and cooking the mixture to proper consistency. Film has intertitles.
Legacy Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Division of labor by sex preparing tapioca ; Houses men's house tambaran ; Hearths men's house ; Smoking tobacco ; Tools stone axes mallets ; Food preparation division of labor by sex ; Dress adornment ; Basketry palm spathes ; Cooking sago palm ; Eating "sac-sac" ; Language and culture
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1982.7.1- 5
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Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film by Film Australia depicting the daily life in a small fishing village of Lake Toba, Indonesia, inhabited by fifteen Christian families. Sinaga, the head of one of these families, is profiled in his role as both fisherman and rice farmer.
Legacy Keywords: Argiculture rice farming Indonesia ; Fishing Indonesia ; Nets use of in fishing Sumatra ; Division of labor by sex Sumatra ; Looms weaving Batak Sumatra ; Political authority village councils Batak Sumatra ; Irrigation wet rice Sumatra ; Mills flour Sumatra ; Markets Sumatra
Credits: Morris, John ; Gow, Keith
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.8.16
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Penn State educational films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Full video record is a documentation project of daily activities in Asan Tol, a central marketplace/bazaar in Kathmandu which is important both as a hub for economic transactions and a focal point in the religious geography of the Kathmandu Valley. Sequences include street level shots of itinerant fruit sellers who ply their trade on the streets of Kathmandu; flower sellers making garlands and selling flowers next to the Temple of Annapurna in Asan Tol; scenes in a Newar courtyard (baha) with shots of votive shrines; ritual offerings of puja during a Theravada Buddhist ceremony; various scenes of the urban ecology around Asan Tol; shots of rice paddys being worked in the countryside around Kathmandu near the village of Toka; women planting rice, men hoeing and plowing; and local temples.
Legacy Keywords: Vendors markets Kathmandu ; Bazaar markets ; Streets social interaction in Kathmandu ; Temples Kathmandu ; Markets Asan Tol Kathmandu ; Temples Annapurna Newar Buddhism ; Shrines Buddhist stupas chityas ; Flowers vendors of Kathmandu ; Shops Kathmandu ; Religion ritual offerings Kathmandu ; Agriculture rice cultivation Kathmandu Valley ; Architecture religious Buddhism Hinduism Kathmandu ; Division of labor by sex rice cultivation Kathmandu Valley ; Alcohol as palliative to work Kathmandu ; Disease elephantiasis Kathmandu Valley ; Work groups rice cultivation Kathmandu Valley ; Tools hand hoe kodari Kathmandu Valley ; Language and culture
Video camera: Brian Hollander
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1989.5.1 - 4b
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Collection Citation:
Todd Lewis films of Asan Tol, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
