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Catalog Data

Collection Creator:
American University (Washington, D.C.)  Search this
Miller, Norman N., 1933-  Search this
Extent:
1 Film reel (36 minutes, one film reel (1,353 feet) assembled film rolls 19 (camera rolls 37,38), 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: scenes of male sociability inside a village dwelling; men drinking tea and conversing followed by man playing a wooden flute; two men working at a threshing floor at a mountain location above the village; shots of another threshing floor where oxen are being used to pull a threshing sled over the wheat; men harvesting wheat on an adjacent hillside; long-range shots of the village in the distance bisected by river; men approaching the village with laden donkeys. Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Threshing wheat threshing floor Afghanistan ; Burdens use of animals to carry Afghanistan ; Musical instruments flutes Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Agricultural crops wheat Afghanistan ; Harvests wheat Afghanistan ; Entertainment of visitors music Afghanistan ; Oxen threshing floors Afghanistan ; Music 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 - 12
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:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
Archival Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/pc921bd22e6-ce67-44d4-81d5-70797907e4c9
EDAN-URL:
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