1 Film reel (27 minutes, black-and-white silent; 717 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Silent films
Place:
Asia
India
Burma
Malaysia
Vietnam
Japan
Date:
1938-1939
Scope and Contents:
Edited film of a trip to Asia to view a variety of pottery techniques. The film concentrates on Indian pottery making, primarily in the Delhi Pottery Works and Puri, but also includes brief sequences of pottery making in Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Japan. Film was shot in 1938-1939 by Adelaide Pearson, founder of Rowantree Pottery in Blue Hill, Maine.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1991.2.1
Provenance:
Received from David Weiss, Northeast Historic Film, in 1991.
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.
Images of people, pottery making, and a market in Vietnam. The photographs were probably made in Cambodia and Vietnam, though they may have also been made in Laos, Thailand, Burma, or Malaysia.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 85-27
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs by Thomas Weir can be found in the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives in EEPA 1987-0001.
Outtakes from edited film shows a woman and her children unpacking a pottery kiln and cooling the earthenware pots with liquid dowsed on by leafy branches. Children are shown carrying the fired pots into a side room of the house for storage; shots of house exterior with painted wall decorations. Shots of an old woman gathering corn stalks along a path as fodder for her cow; interview footage at another homestead of an old man talking about his illness; interview with an unemployed young man along a path discussing causes of unemployment, the nature of his skills, size of his family, inheritance of land, and prospects for the future.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Pottery earthenware unglazed ; Kilns pottery ; Crafts self-employment ; Houses decorations ; Illness family support ; Hunger ideas about ; Employment labor supply ; Language and culture
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 30)
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:
Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A number of Indian pottery crafts are displayed. The item is number 183 in the series Views in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. The image is of the same pottery, but is not identical to number 197 of Photo Lot 90-1. The item is identical to number 290 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A number of Indian pottery crafts are displayed. The item is number 183 in the series Views in New Mexico and Arizona. The image is of the same pottery, but is not identical to number 196.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A number of Indian pottery crafts are displayed. The item is identical to number 196 of Photo Lot 90-1. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Views Representing Specimens of Indian Pottery and Statuary Both Ancient and Modern.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09849900
Other Title:
Views Representing Specimens of Indian Pottery and Statuary Both Ancient and Modern
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
2 Film reels (color sound print; 1,137 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Sound films
Place:
East Asia
Japan
Date:
1966
Scope and Contents:
"Potters of Japan" parts one and two, 1966, made by Richard and Marjorie Peeler.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Marjorie Peeler in 2005.
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.
Rye, Owen S. and Evans, Clifford. 1976. Traditional Pottery Techniques of Pakistan: Field and Laboratory Studies. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp., 283 pp. doi:10.5479/si.00810223.21.1
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
Edited film focuses on the Kirdi's skills as potters and metal-smiths: preparing a kiln, clay preparation, pot building, and metal forging. Women are shown wearing metal work. Film is associated with John Brom collection but it is not certain that he was involved in making this film.
Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Pottery craft ; Metal-work
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1998.18.7
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:
John L. Brom films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
