Object Details
- Collection Collaborator
- McElwee, Ross
- Blitz, Daniel
- Bishop, John Melville
- Baker, Peter
- Ritchie, Claire
- Young, Robert
- Terry, John
- Galvin, Frank
- Bestall, Clifford
- Gardner, Robert
- Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
- Collection Creator
- Marshall, John, 1932-2005
- Collection Collaborator
- Marshall, Lorna
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- John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
- John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 2: Published Films and Videos
- Sponsor
- Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Extent
- Film reels (sound, color reversal; 548 feet (15 minutes), 16mm)
- Date
- 1970
- Archival Repository
- Human Studies Film Archives
- Identifier
- HSFA.1983.11, File 2005.11.32
- Type
- Archival materials
- Film reels
- Collection Citation
- The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use. Information on reproduction and fees available from repository.
- Scope and Contents
- This short film, shot in 1957-58, documents an intense game in which under-tones of social and personal tensions become apparent. The game itself is simple: women form a semi-circle which moves counter-clockwise as each woman, in turn, runs to the center of the circle where she dances several steps and tosses the melon to the next woman at the proper moment in the song. Men intrude and dance spectacularly and an old woman, N/aoka, goes into a trance-like state. The game begins to disintegrate when N!ai, the wife of the male dancer /Gunda, taunts and teases N/aoka.
- Collection Restrictions
- The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection is open for research. Please contact the Archives for availabilty of access copies of audio visual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played. Materials relating to Series 6 Production Files are restricted and not available for research until 2048, 2063, 2072. Kinship diagrams in Series 13 are restricted due to privacy concerns. Various copyrights and restrictions on commercial use apply to the reproduction or publication of film, video, audio, photographs, and maps.
- Record ID
- ebl-1644605100161-1644605103333-2
