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 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects
- Sponsor
- Finding aid has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Extent
- Film reels (sound/silent color/black-and-white reversal; 183,000 feet (84.75 hours), 16mm)
- Date
- 1957-1958
- Archival Repository
- Human Studies Film Archives
- Identifier
- HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.6
- 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.
- 83.11.6a shot log pdf, 83.11.6b shot log pdf
- NMNH-83_11_6a_shotlogs.pdf NMNH/NMNH-83_11_6b_shotlogs.pdf
- Scope and Contents
- Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum. Locations include: the plains south of !Nama, !Nama pan, !Kubi, Tsumkwe, !O, and /Gautcha waterhole. Subsistence activities documented include: gathering mangetti nuts and tsi, eating kamako berries and mayeth nuts, digging for roots, preparation of lamb, herding and milking of cows, killing a puff adder, and hunting giraffe, hartebeest, and wildebeest. Technologies illustrated include: arrow-making and poisoning, stringing beads, preparation of hides, making a musical bow, and working on thongs. Aspects of sociability, and daily and ceremonial life include: male and female ornamentation; various games (porcupine game, melon tossing game, and djani bird toy); curing and trance dancing; administration of medicine; and playing musical instruments (including the musical bow, the one-stringed violin, the //uashi (harp), and the harmonica). Also included is footage of skerms (shelters), activities at Bantu sites (dancing, pounding mealie-meal, grinding corn, and winnowing tobacco), various wildlife, and activities of the Marshall expedition. Footage from this expedition was used to make the published titles: AN ARGUMENT ABOUT A MARRIAGE, BAOBAB PLAY, CHILDREN THROW TOY ASSEGAIS, A CURING CEREMONY, DEBE'S TANTRUM, GROUP OF WOMEN, A JOKING RELATIONSHIP, LION GAME, THE MEAT FIGHT, THE MELON TOSSING GAME, MEN BATHING, N/UM TCHAI, PLAYING WITH SCORPIONS, TUG OF WAR, and THE WASP NEST. Footage primarily shot by John Marshall; additional photography by Robert Gardner and Robert Gesteland.
- 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-1644605100161-1644605103319-1
