Special Films Collection: Ethnographic films, 1916-[ca. 1970]

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Special Films Collection: Ethnographic films, 1916-[ca. 1970]

Special Films Collection: Ethnographic films, 1916-[ca. 1970]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155513656

Ethnographic films presenting a study of the culture and customs of living peoples. Very few involve staff of the American Museum of Natural History. Films depict indigenous people worldwide, especially from many parts of Africa, South America, Australia and New Guinea, parts of Asia including Bali, and American Indians. Nearly all aspects of traditional life are portrayed with emphasis on daily life, initiation, burial and other rituals, witchcraft and magic, dance, music, hunting, cooking, and crafts including weaving and pottery manufacture. Dwellings and animals of the area are also shown. Specific subjects include children of Africa, Asia, and Mexico, dances of the Dogon of Mali, dances of Cambodia, headhunters of Brazil, sign language of Sioux Indians, and life in Hungarian villages of the 1920s. Also, "Dead Birds," a film made by Robert Gardner, concerning the avenge-reprisal system of the Dugum Dani of New Guinea; and a number of African films made by Edgar Monsanto.

54 films.

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