Enga: Laigama Court
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1984.7.6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kendon, Adam
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content: Adam Kendon films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (75 minutes, black-and-white sound; 2,800 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record of the Enga, a sedentary subsistence horticulturalist group of the Enga Province found west of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea. Footage documents the proceedings of a magristrate's office in a Laigama court. Conversations are conducted between the Enga and the magistrate through a group of interpreters.