Original film and video created by Carole Yawney for her Rastafarian research in Jamaica.
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Provenance:
Received from John P. Homiak/Collections and Archives Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, in 2007.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
Video recordings
Citation:
Carole Yawney films and videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Anonymous Gift in memory of Ernest (Ernie) R. Smith, Jazz Historian
Collection consists of 23 films created or collected by the Explorers Club. Films include DJUKA - Morton Kahn, SWEENY, AFGHANISTAN, RIDDLE OF MAYAN CAVE, WONDERS OF THE SAHARA, JAMBO PORINI: EAST AFRICA, MEXICO, TIBET-FORBIDDEN TIBET, PRIMITIVE PEOPLES OF MATTO GRASSO, A STORY OF THE TROPICS, LA JEUNE FORET, FROM NEW LANDS TO OLD, HIGH ARTIC, ARTIC EXPEDITION, ANTARCTICA HERE WE COME, Cotlow outs, AFRICA, ETHIOPIAN JUBILEE, SECOND BYRD EXPEDITION, ARTIC FILM-1956, Lindbergh flight.
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Provenance:
Received from the Explorers Club in 1991.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
silent films
Citation:
Explorers Club film collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Pennsylvania State University. Audio-Visual Services Search this
Extent:
Film reels (color black-and-white sound, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Educational films
Sound films
Place:
Southeast Asia
Oceania
West Indies
Jamaica
Australia
Date:
1950-1979
Scope and Contents:
Collection consists of at least 15 film prints retired from Penn State's Audio-Visual Services Library.
Comprises two accessions: 1991.08 and 1993.15.
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Related Materials:
The Human Studies Film Archives holds additional titles from the Pennsylvania State University Audio-Visual Services in the Penn State educational film collection, collection number HSFA.1994.19.
Provenance:
Received from Pennsylvania State University Audio-Visual Services in 1991 and 1993.
Restrictions:
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Genre/Form:
Educational films
Sound films
Citation:
Penn State educational films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Footage shot over 15 years by Timreck. A large percentage, if not all, covers work by SI archeologist Bill Fitzhugh. RED PAINT PEOPLE was cut from this footage. Timreck (and Fitzhugh) are continuing to shoot material that is a continuation of this project. This material of interviews, sites, Labrador, etc. is known as the Northeast Archeology Project.
Outtakes of a film project exploring comparative maritime adaptations especially between Scandanavia and northeastern North America and aspects of the circumpolar culture theory in northern anthropology with focus on the Smithsonian's maritime Archaic archeology project conducted 1970-1980. Footage includes interviews with Graham Clark, William Fitzhugh, Erika Hellskog, Alice Kehoe, Eric Brink Petersen, Paul Simonsen, James Tuck, and Steve Williams. Locations filmed include the coast of Maine; Denmark; Norway; Varanger Fjord, Norway; and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. Also included are: artifacts in the Tromso Museum; standing stones, petroglyphs, and cairns at Bohustlan, Sweden; Bronze age village site on St. Mary, Scilly Isles, England; merry maiden stone circle in Cornwall, England; Carnac, France; Port au Choix artifacts in Newfoundland Museum; artifacts in Port au Choix Museum; and excavations at Nulliak Cove, Labrador. Edited film, RED PAINT PEOPLE, was produced from this footage.
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Local Numbers:
HSFA 1991.10.1
Provenance:
Received from Ted Timreck in 1991.
Restrictions:
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Footage shot by Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles among the Mbuti Pygmies, Zaire and the Ik, Uganda, between 1954 and 1972. Footage documents the nkumbi initiations among the Mbuti, villager-Pygmy interactions; subsistence and daily life among the Ik pastoralists of northwestern Uganda.
Supplementary materials: associated texts and annotations (recorded narratives)
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Related Materials:
The Joseph A. Towles Papers are held by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston.
Provenance:
Received from Myrtle G. Glascoe, The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, in 1991.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
Video recordings
Citation:
Colin Turnbull films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited films, outtakes, stills, and narration tracks by John and Naomi Bishop. Includes footage shot in the village of Melamchi, Nepal, for the film Himalayan Herders.
Annotatations (recorded narratives) are by John Bishop, documentary filmmaker, Naomi Bishop, anthropologist, John Homiak, Human Studies Film Archives and Nogabu, cultural informant from Melamchi. Footage complements [Melemchi Village, 1989].
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Provenance:
Received in multiple accessions from John and Naomi Bishop. Initial accessions of the Melamchi films were received in 1987 and 1990, and additional groups of material were received in 2002, 2008, and 2017.
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.
Film reels (27 minutes, color sound; 1000 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Sound films
Place:
Oceania
Guam
Date:
1976
Scope and Contents:
Edited film documenting the work of Chamorro traditional curer, Jaun Cepeda, on the island of Guam, Micronesia. Film discusses aspects of the history of Guam and the roots of the indigenous healing tradition practiced by contemporary Guamanian curers. Detailed are the curer's trade and indigenous ideas about the cause of disease, diagnoses and knowledge of materia medica, with examples of the physical and ritual aspects of therapy.
Legacy Keywords: Healers sirahanu Guam ; Therapy magical Guam ; Illness ideas about ; Healing massage infusions Guam ; Medicine indigenous preparation of Guam ; Spirits as cause of disease Guam ; Acculturation medical systems indigenous Guam ; Plants materia medica Guam
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Local Number:
HSFA 1990.2.1
Provenance:
Received from Dan Baker in 1990.
Restrictions:
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Footage and film shot in 1987 for the film BORN AGAIN about a congregation of fundamentalist Baptists in and around Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Provenance:
Received from James Ault in 1989.
Restrictions:
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Collection consists of the edited film, Powerhouse for God, and related outtakes. The films document a Baptist pastor and his congregation in Virginia's northern Blue Ridge Mountains and center on the worship service and devotional performances.
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Provenance:
Received from Barry Dornfield in 1989.
Restrictions:
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Collection consists of footage shot among the Senoi of Malaysia documenting aspects of their religion, mythology, and curing rituals and a television broadcast produced from this project.
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Provenance:
Received from Duncan Holaday in 1989.
Restrictions:
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OBLIGATIONS TO THE ANCESTORS 1/2" VHS video; SETTING UP THE GONGSTAND RITUAL; MISCELLANEOUS KODI; PREPARATIONS FOR THE FEAST IN MANGGANIPI; FEAST IN DREAM VILLAGE; Materials shot on the Island of Sumba in Indonesia.
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Provenance:
Received from Janet Hoskins and Laura Scheerer in two accesions in 1988.
Restrictions:
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Original film, prints, elements, sound materials and associated texts from the following films produced by explorer Lewis Cotlow: SAVAGE SPLENDOR, ZANZABUKU, VANISHING AFRICA, TWIGHLIGHT OF THE PRIMITIVE, PRIMITIVE PARADISE, JUNGLE HEADHUNTERS, HIGH ARCTIC, IN SEARCH OF THE PRIMITIVE.
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Biographical / Historical:
Explorer and filmmaker Lewis Cotlow directed expeditions between 1940 and 1969 while carrying the Explorers Club Flag to the Amazon, Africa, Australia, and New Guinea.
Provenance:
Received from Lewis Cotlow in 1978 and the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History in 1985 and 1987.
Restrictions:
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Edited film THREADS OF LIFE and outtakes by Irwin Dermer documenting peoples of Iran and Afghanistan. The film was shot in 1973 and focuses on various aspects of rug production and trade.
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Provenance:
Received from Irwin Dermer in 1987 and 1999.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
Citation:
Irwin Dermer films, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
125 Film reels (black-and-white color silent sound; 38,368 feet, 16mm, 35mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Sound films
Silent films
Place:
North America
Alberta
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Date:
1908-1987
Scope and Contents:
Collection consists of films of the American West created and collected by Bryan Dew. Collection also contains production logs, lab receipts and other materials related to A Ten Dollar Horse and a Forty Dollar Saddle.
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Provenance:
Received from Bryan Dew in 1999.
Restrictions:
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Full film record created for the National Anthropological Film Center, Smithsonian Institution. Collection also contains still film, sound recordings, annotations (recorded narratives), and field notes.
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Provenance:
Received from National Anthropological Film Center in 1986.
Restrictions:
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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Sound films
Citation:
National Anthropological Film Center films of the Cook Islands, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
