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  1. Spear Making: Boys’Spear Fight (1965 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  2. Spear Thrower Making, Including Stone Flaking and Gum Preparation (1965 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  3. Spinning Hair String, Getting Water from Well, Binding Girl’s Hair (1965 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  4. Benin Kingship Ritual (1964 Film)

    Director
    R E Bradbury; Francis Speed
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
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    The rulers of Benin in Nigeria, the Oba, traditionally spend much of their time performing rituals designed to enhance their own power and the prosperity of their subjects. This film record of the rituals...

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  5. Miao Year (1964 Film)

    Director
    William R Geddes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A detailed ethnographic study of the Miao tribe, who practice shifting agriculture, in northern Thailand. Shows details of Miao ritual, the cultivation of agricultural produce (maize, rice and the opium...

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  6. Were Ni!: He is a Madman (1963 Film)

    Director
    Raymond Prince; Francis Speed
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An ethnopsychiatric film of the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Western Nigeria. Among the Yoruba, psychiatric disorder is widespread and a set of institutions has been developed to deal...

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  7. Women of Aibom (1961 Film)

    Director
    Boris Cook
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The making of a wide variety of pottery by the women of this village in Chambri lakes, Sepik district, New Guinea, which relies on trading pots for much of its subsistence. Explains the full process of...

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  8. Kula, The (1961 Film)

    Director
    Steve Szabo
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A record of the kula ceremonial exchange of gifts in the Milne Bay and south Trobriand Islands areas of eastern Papua, concentrating on the ceremonial exchanges between chiefs and the making of the shell...

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  9. Legend in Clay (1961 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the making of very large pots in the Amphlett Islands. The pots, which were exported to obtain sufficient food, played an important part in the utilitarian trade accompanying the Kula ceremonial...

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  10. Land Dayaks of Sarawak, The (196 Film)

    Director
    William R Geddes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A straightforward presentation of the daily life of a land dayak longhouse village as it was in about 1960, with material on the growing of rice, fishing, the collection of wild vegetables and fruits, food...

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