Film footage shot by Barbara Johnson among the Jyapu subcaste of the Newars of Tawnany Tole, Thecho village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; August 20, 4PM, girls play a toss game with fruit pits, and a baby is passed from arm to arm as they take turns playing; toddlers share food; an aunt disciplines her young nephew; several boys play a one-legged hopping game; and older children care for younger ones. August 20, after dark, a gathering in which men play drums, sing, and watch as one man masquerades as a female witch figure, or demoness, called "La-Khe", who makes gestures with obscene sexual connotations. This activity is part of Gai Jattra, an annual festival to both honor and aid the souls of recently deceased relatives. August 26, 3 to 4 PM, courtyard activities including 5 to 6 year old boys playing a jumping game, then wrestling and pushing. August 26, 4 to 5 PM, a girl cries when her mother leaves, her brother picks her up and he and a boy cousin play with her. Other courtyard scenes, including example of affection between men. starts to rain.
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Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.1-10
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Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Film footage shot by Barbara Johnson among the Jyapu subcaste of the Newars of Tawnany Tole, Thecho village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: September 4, mid morning and late afternoon; A group of boys antagonize a 5 year old boy. He makes an angry gesture, common among adults, with the back of his hand, but does not actually strike anyone. See filmmaker's camera log for CR46 for more background on the interaction with this boy. September 5 late afternoon, September 6 mid-morning, and September 13, early and late morning: A father sits in a doorway with his children; several boys play a hand slapping game, one boy holds a hand out as another boy pats it several times with the palms of both hands; some girls play jump rope as some boys play a pitching game with stones. Boys and girls often play separately. People gather around the water tap to wait for the water to be turned on. Mustard seed that has been drying in the sun is put in a sack. As their mother spreads mustard seed to dry on a mat two young children tie leaves, with holes cut in them for their eyes, on their faces with twine, imitating a masked dancer, a man masquerading as a witch figure, they had seen the evening before. An older woman uses a traditional kitchen utensil to cut a type of leaf stalk that will be eaten with the morning meal. A courtyard mother nurses her only child, a walking age little girl.
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Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.1-16
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Cataloging supported by Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
George Bancroft; Kate Bateman; Edwin McMasters Stanton; Clara Louise Kellogg; Bellini; P. T. Barnum; Edwin T. Booth; George Francis Train; Ulysses S. Grant; William Cullen Bryant; Joseph Smith Fowler; Henry Ward Beecher; Thomas Nast; John Thompson Hoffman
Original text on slide reads, "Oyenuwo, name of masquerade musical recording album cover. Ajo Bata (Ajo - dance, Bata - drum, Ife-Olu [Solaru]'s uncle, Mr. Baba Asoro Ojo"
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Slide No. R8-6
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Original text on slide reads, "Ekoi wooden headdress mask covered with animal skin. Ekkpe Masquerade Cologne (for Increase). 10 inches"
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Slide No. SL7-22
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Marilyn Houlberg Nigeria Collection, EEPA 2005-002, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Original text on slide reads, "Kalabari masquerader in the streets. Cole- UCSB"
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Original text on slide reads, "Person in masquerade at Efik dance"
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Slide No. R3-29
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Original text on slide reads, "Women dancing near person in masquerade at Efik dance"
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Slide No. R3-30
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Original text on slide reads, "Detail of person in masquerade at Efik dance"
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Slide No. R4-51
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