4,100 Photographs (black-and-white and color negatives, 120mm; 35mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Place:
Oceania
Papua New Guinea
Date:
1963-1968
Scope and Contents:
Still photographs shot by E. Richard Sorenson while working for NIH. These stills were shot between 1963-1968 in Papua New Guinea. The still negatives were brought to the Smithsonian when Sorenson began the National Anthropological Film Center in 1975. May be associated with NIH motion picture film that Sorenson shot that was also transferred to the Smithsonian.
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Provenance:
Source of acquisition is unknown.
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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Citation:
E. Richard Sorenson Papua New Guinea photographs, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Full film record was shot by Michael Maloney, employee of the National Human Studies Film Center (NHSFC), Smithsonian Institution and co-principal investigator for the Study of Child Behavior and Human Development in Cultural Isolates (SCBHDCI) with E. Richard Sorenson and in cooperation with The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in Papua New Guinea. The Miyanmin of Bowye Creek (West Sepik Province, Yapsie) were selected for study due to their remote location and lack of previous contact with outsiders by anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson and T. Wayne Dye, SIL Anthropology Consultant and Coordinator. Guided by the NHSFC Ethnographic Research Film Methodology during the December 21, 1978 through March 26, 1979 expedition, the film record focuses on the daily clan life and interactions among children, infants, family members, clan relations, and non-clan visitors. Film record contains daily life activities that include food gathering/ preparation/distribution, subsistence gardening, harvesting and preparing sago palm, grooming, tool making, curing practices and rituals, shared infant care taking, age-grade interactions, decorating spear tips, preparing clan feasts (taro, manioc, feral pig), celebratory displays and a burial. Also recorded are contact with non-clan Papua New Guinea citizens and a government census patrol.
Legacy keywords: Language and culture ; Child rearing ; Childcare mother and children ; Food gathering ; Feasts ceremony ; Feasts food preparation ; Subsistence economy ; Architecture, Domestic ; Rites and ceremonies ; Play children ; Cookery ; Hunting ; Tools and other implements ; Mortuary customs ; Socialization
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1986.13.36
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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Collection Citation:
National Anthropological Film Center films of Papua New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Research film record was shot by M. Michael Maloney, employee of the National Human Studies Film Center (NHSFC), Smithsonian Institution and co-principal investigator for the Study of Child Behavior and Human Development in Cultural Isolates (SCBHDCI) with E. Richard Sorenson and in cooperation with The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in Papua New Guinea. The Miyanmin of Bowye Creek (West Sepik Province) were selected for study due to their remote location and lack of previous contact with outsiders by anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson and T. Wayne Dye, SIL Anthropology Consultant and Coordinator. Filmed during the August 11, 1980 through October, 15 1980 expedition this research film record follows up on the 1978 research filming [Film Studies of Traditional Cultures in New Guinea: Miyanmin 1978-79] so as to document seasonal variations in the way of life and to extend the behavioral sample. The film record documents a changed residential pattern (from haus singsing to village residential layout). Film sample maintains focus on on daily clan life (two clans in residence) and interactions among children, infants, family members, clan relations, and non-clan visitors. Film record contains daily life activities that include food gathering/ preparation/distribution, subsistence gardening, grooming, tool making, curing practices and rituals, shared infant care taking, age-grade interactions, decorating spear tips, preparing clan feasts.
Legacy keywords: Language and culture ; Nonverbal communication ; Child rearing ; Childcare mother and children ; Food gathering ; Feasts ceremony ; Feasts food preparation ; Subsistence economy ; Architecture, Domestic ; Rites and ceremonies ; Play children ; Cookery ; Hunting ; Tools and other implements ; Socialization
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1986.13.37
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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Collection Citation:
National Anthropological Film Center films of Papua New Guinea, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Crocker, William H. (William Henry), 1924- Search this
Extent:
Film reels (color sound; 84,000 feet)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1975
Scope and Contents:
Full film record was created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution and was filmed among the Canela Indians, a Ge speaking tribe in northeastern Brazil. Research film project concentrates on socialization of children. Footage also contains daily life activities including food preparation, cultivation, hunting, grooming, and playing soccer. An initiation of boys with accompanying celebrations and log racing, Wild Boar day, and a funeral were also filmed.
Local Number:
HSFA 1986.13.31
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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Collection Citation:
National Anthropoligcal Film Center films of the Canela, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Crocker, William H. (William Henry), 1924- Search this
Extent:
Film reels (color sound; 39,540 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
1979
Scope and Contents:
Full film record was shot by Steven Schecter, employee of the National Human Studies Film Center, Smithsonian Institution, in collaboration with anthropologist William Crocker, of the Canela Indians, a Ge speaking tribe in northeastern Brazil. Research film project, directed by anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson, concentrates on interactions of children and infants with parents and siblings and children with other children in various settings. Footage also contains daily life activities including food preparation and distribution, doing bead work, hunting, preparing manioc, grooming, making and cooking meat pies, and collecting honey and a funeral.
Local Number:
HSFA 1986.13.32
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:
National Anthropoligcal Film Center films of the Canela, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Full film record created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution. Research film project documents daily life and subsistence activities of villagers and monastic life and ceremonials at the Buddhist monastery in Mathoo, Ladakh, India. The edited film, LADAKH VILLAGE MORNING, was produced from this footage.
Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Buddhism ; monastery ; Religion ; Rites and ceremonies ; Monks Buddhism ; Cookery ; Animal husbandry ; Agriculture ; Subsistence farming ; Tea ; New Year ceremony ; Dress adornment
Full film record created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution. Research film project documents daily life and subsistence activities of villagers and monastic life and ceremonials at the Buddhist monastery in Mathoo, Ladakh, India. Included is the annual Oracle which is performed after the New Year.
Slide photographs shot in Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 crowd of people, women in peyraks (turquoise hats); 3-6 zoom out of 1-2; 7 same as 1;2 9 line of people facing stone wall; 10-18 same as 1-2; 19-20 boy with baby and children in crowd; 22-28 same as 1-2; 29-30 women with colorful bows on their hats or peyraks; 31-34 field, dry with pathways through it
Full film record created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution. Research film project was filmed in Mathoo, Ladakh, India. Footage documents daily life and subsistence activities of villagers including a full agricultural cycle, preparation and serving of food, children playing and interacting among themselves and with adults, drying dung, and animal husbandry.
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-3 boy monk holding prayer beads and walking through field; 4-6 people in field working with shovels; 8-13 children sitting on floor indoors eating rice; 16-18 woman bending over infront of stove; 20 woman in goatskin shawl sitting with children eating; 21 man sitting in corner drinking tea; 23-25 old man holding thread sitting on floor; 26 woman handing girl bread, girl holding up cup; 27 woman sitting on floor eating; 28 woman and girl sitting on floor eating, older woman in background; 29 old woman and girl sitting on floor eating; 31 man sitting by wall in kitchen, woman with goatskin shawl bending over him; 32 woman and children sitting and eating; 33 same as 21; 34 old man eating, boy behind man; 35 woman and boy holding paper, boy has pen, both are smiling
Full film record created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution. Research film project documents monastic life and ceremonials at the Buddhist monastery in Mathoo, Ladakh, India, including the annual Oracle which is performed after the new year and chaam dancing.
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 2-4 monastery in center of picture on hill; 5 old stone colored buildings; 6-9 woman sitting infront of stone wall, one wearing peyrak (turquoise hat) and one wearing traditional tall hat; 10 man sitting infront of stone wall wearing red with his hand on his face; 11 three women infront of stone wall sitting, one with a peyrak and two wearing tall hats, one with a toddler in a pink dress; 12 old man in tan sitting with other men infront of a stone wlal; 13-17 two boy monks horsing around with a girl in blue in foreground; 18-26 boy monks infront of stone building and doorway walking towards a woman with a backet onher back with a child; 27 young girl standing infront of woman wearing goatskin shawl; 29-31 two women, one with peyrak and baby other with tall hat and woven bag beside wall; 32-36 boys reading papers pinned to wall infront of doorway' 37 woman sitting down in shade in courtyard with boy talking; 38 women talking wearing goatskin shawls beside drying hay and stone wall
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 walled courtyard with buildings, bundled plants, ladders, and wood; 3-4 4 children infront of raised porch; 6-16 old monk standing in doorway talking to the camera and smiling; 18 Art, painting or tapestry with circular design with hog, bird and snake in celter and three eyeed face above circle; 19-31 boy monk standing between column and painted wall, talking and gesturing towards the painting of landscape, people, and boots; 32 old fresco painting of buddhist diety, faded and chipped with green circle behind the head; 33-35 old fresco painting on wall of a city
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 2-4 groupd of people, 2 women with babies, one with a peyrak (turquoise hat) and one wearing a tall hat, both sitting with children all around them in courtyard; 6 girl with goatskin shawl walking; 8-10 3 women and one man standing near a tent, two women with peyraks and a child standing nearby; 11-12 boys standing and talking, one looking up beside a stone drop off, possibly taken from structure roof; 13 boy looking up with his hands out as if he is going to catch something standing near white tent; 14-19 same boy looking up with hands out near blue tent surrounded by men and boys; 20 sitting women in peyraks with children; 21 sitting women and children infront of stone wall that leads towards a sructure; 22 women in peyrak handing baby in pink to a man, other woman and children nearby; 24 women and children sititng close together talking; 25-26 two boy monks talking and walking towards group of standing women in tall hates; 27--28 boy in grey coat walking with his hands up infront of a woman in a tall hat; 29-31 gilded buddhist diety statue, white scarved in hands of statues; 32 men bowing to gilded statue; 33 mans hand together infront of painted wall; 35-36 different gilded statue with black and white checkered scarf in its hands and a crown on its head; 37 embroidery of landscape and circle design on cloth
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1 group of people, children in button up shirts, a woman with a baby wearing a peyrak (turquoise hat); 2 old woman in a peyrak in a line of people, girl standing with her hands together; 3 people standing together crowded and talking; 4 men walking past lined up people, these men are playing drums strapped around their necks; 5-6 man playing kangling (horn) surrounded by people, this man is in a grey shirt; 7-9 monk with yellow crested hat walking past people carrying stick; 21-23 monk in crowd being bowed to, women bowing in foreground wearing peyrak; 25 monk being bowed to walking towards monk wearing yellow crested hat in middle of crowd; 26-27 monks putting older monk in car; 28-36 crowd of people with monks in crowd facing car
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 women in peyraks standing by a shoulder high wall; 3 man walking carry two drums with the strap slung behind his neck; 4 three monks walking; 5 crowd of women and girls, one woman with their baby; 6-9 monk walking through a crowd that is bowing to him; 10-12 large crowd of people watching as a monk enters a car 13-14 crowd of people, woman in peyrak and a man in a tall hat, woman's hands are together; 15-19 crowd moving to create a path for the car to move through it; 20-22 car moving through the cleared path, two monks in the back of the jeep talking and waving; 23-24 crowd following the car as it moves; 25-29 the back of the car as it leaves the crowd behind; 30-33 baby with a hat in a basket covered in blankets
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-3 large crowd of people, mostly women, some with peyraks, woman laughing and talking; 4-8 two older women in peyraks and a man holding a toddler watching over a waist high stone wall; 9 man smiling and walking while holding a baby in a small group of women, he is next to a young woman and both have tall hats; 10 different woman holding a younger baby and moving through a crowd of women;11 a group of women with a boy monk in the foreground, one woman wearing a peyrak is holding a baby girl with a blue colored patterned scarf; 12-13 a group of woman, 4 with peyraks on, two with babies; 14-15 older woman in a peyrak and goatskin shawl, joined by another lay in a goatskin shawl; 16-17 a crowd of mostly women in tall hates and payraks; 18-22 an old woman in a peyrak holding a young girls hand, another woman in a peyrak is in the foreground; 24-32 woman talking, 3 are in peyraks, and one is in a tall hat, one of the women in peyraks has a baby in a blue scarf and talking to woman in tall hat with baby strapped to her back with a tan shawl; 33-36 two women in goatskin shawls and peyraks talking with third woman in peyrak
Slide photographs shot in Mathoo Monastery, Mathoo Village, Ladakh, India. Numbers 1-2 crowd of women, mostly children in the foreground, mostly with their backs to the camera; 3-6 woman in tall hat walking and breast feeding a baby with a white cap on; 8-14 old woman in peyrak (turquoise hat) and toddler's heads, heads just over stone wall; 15 manin tan cap walking towards camera on path, woman walking away behind him; 16-19 woman in yellow hat carrying a toddler with a pink cap on walking on a path by a stone wall with women sitting nearby; 20-27 woman holding baby, woman is wearing peyrak and is sitting onthe ground, the baby's pants are falling off and the woman is pulling them up; 29-30 boy monk walking up towards a woman holding a toddler and sitting next to ayoung child; 31-34 woman in tall hat holding a young child also wearing a tall hat, both next to a woman in a peyrak; 35 two women in peyraks talking to a man and a younger woman in tall hat
