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Untitled by the film maker, this film is the result of Susie Benally’s teaching her mother, Alta Kahn, how to use the camera. Similar to the daughter’s film in theme - it depicts the daughter weaving a...
About the construction of a new well for the Navajo to draw water from. The film differs from most of the others in the series in that it concerns a non-traditional subject and occasionally rearranges the...
An old medicine man, Sam Yazzie, looks for roots to use in a ceremony. He prepares for a sand painting and part of the actual curing ceremony in which the patient appears is shown.
The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...
Follows a group of women and children as they gather berries and roots. Younger women bait a nest of wasps. Note: the material for the film was shot in the 1950s.
First-person narration (with Oxford accent) by the carver, who describes the complete process of making a hand-drum, from selecting the tree to carving the handle. Other demands for carvings are more briefly...
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