POWELL-COTTON MUSEUM

Description: In the 1930s Major P. H. G. Powell-Cotton and his daughter Dr Diana Powell-Cotton made several ethnographic films in Africa, chiefly in Italian Somaliland and southern Angola, and mostly illustrating local crafts. In the 1950s and 1960s other members of the family made ethnographic and wildlife films in Kenya and Uganda. The Museum has over thirty of these films, the earliest dating from 1922 and made in the Cameroons. We have additional films from Frank Varian who was an engineer in Angola from about 1911. Films and the 20,000 photographs are available for commercial use, rates quoted on application
Website: http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/P-C_Museum
Keywords: Africa; Wildlife; Ethnography; Anthropology
Access: Access available. By arrangement only. Films may occasionally be made available for television and commercial use; rates can be quoted on application.
Facilities: Films may be viewed at the museum, if three to four weeks notice is given, by parties, groups of bona fide students and researchers.
Charges: Charges for research for broadcast productions. Charges for facilities and handling.
Copyright: Copyright held. Copyright advice available.

Video/Film: Video: 7 reels/cassettes. Small selection of copy videos (incomplete).Amateur.
Video components: VHS Video.
Film: Silent 16mm black and white film of various African tribes showing such skills as pot making, iron smelting, marriage ceremony and day to day life. Silent 16mm colour natural history material of African big game and birds. 50% colour film, 50% black and white film. Amateur, documentary. Mostly available on VHS.
Film components: 16mm, positive film.

Notes: Typed lists.
Conservation policy: Some field notes available with films relating to tribes in Angola pre- World War II.

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