Edited film reel (reel two) includes shots along the New Guinea coast between Samarai and Port Moresby which include aerial shots of native villages and gardens, unloading of ship provisions and loading a the smaller supply craft used to set up base camp; shots of natives drilling in military formation under the direction of colonial officer; aerial shots of native outriggers along the coast; shots of interior villages from the air; natives surrounding the monoplane at water's edge. Film has intertitles.
Legacy Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Colonial administration government officers ; Canoes outriggers ; Military accouterment dress natives ; Millenarian movements cargo cults symbolism of marching ; Language and culture
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1982.7.1-2
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film reel (reel 3) includes aerial and ground shots of Lake Murry and areas of the Upper Fly River; native villages with tree houses; shots of aircraft landing on the lake and hundreds of natives gathering about the plane; bartering between natives and members of the expedition; close up shots of natives in their canoes with bows and spears, males adorned with shells, feathers, boar tusks; shot of a native with a human skull; sugar cane specimens. Film has intertitles.
Legacy Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Cannibalism skull ; Canoes outriggers ; Barter Europeans natives ; Houses tree houses ; Warfare fortifications tree houses ; Weapons spears bows ; Adornment feathers shells ; Hair styles braids ; Airplanes for exploration Papua New Guinea ; Language and culture
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1982.7.1-3
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Collection Citation:
Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film reel (reel 4) includes aerial and ground shots of the Sepik River between Lae and Ambunti, a native police camp; Shots include: aerial views of a coconut plantation; Father Kirschbaum (a missionary) boarding the plane for flight upriver; scenes in a native village including shots of a "House Tambaran" (large ornate men's house), statuary art associated with the tambaran, male natives wearing penis sheaths, and dugout canoes. Film has intertitlies.
Local Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Labor natives ; Canoes dugouts ; Missionaries Father Kirschbaum ; Houses men's house tambaran ; Carving art men's house ; Art statuary ; Adornment hairstyles shells ; Dress penis sheaths ; Penis sheaths ; Airplanes for exploration Papua New Guinea ; Language and culture
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1982.7.1-4
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
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Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
