Film Studies of Traditional Cultures in New Guinea: Miyanmin of Bowye Creek
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1986.13.36
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Maloney, M. Michael
label: Collection Creator
content: Sorenson, E. Richard
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content: National Anthropological Film Center films of Papua New Guinea
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 63 Film reels (, color sound; 47,600 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978-1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Full film record was shot by Michael Maloney, employee of the National Human Studies Film Center (NHSFC), Smithsonian Institution and co-principal investigator for the Study of Child Behavior and Human Development in Cultural Isolates (SCBHDCI) with E. Richard Sorenson and in cooperation with The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) in Papua New Guinea. The Miyanmin of Bowye Creek (West Sepik Province, Yapsie) were selected for study due to their remote location and lack of previous contact with outsiders by anthropologist E. Richard Sorenson and T. Wayne Dye, SIL Anthropology Consultant and Coordinator. Guided by the NHSFC Ethnographic Research Film Methodology during the December 21, 1978 through March 26, 1979 expedition, the film record focuses on the daily clan life and interactions among children, infants, family members, clan relations, and non-clan visitors.  Film record contains daily life activities that include food gathering/ preparation/distribution, subsistence gardening, harvesting and preparing sago palm, grooming, tool making, curing practices and rituals, shared infant care taking, age-grade interactions, decorating spear tips, preparing clan feasts (taro, manioc, feral pig), celebratory displays and a burial.  Also recorded are contact with non-clan Papua New Guinea citizens and a government census patrol.

Legacy keywords: Language and culture ; Child rearing ; Childcare mother and children ; Food gathering ; Feasts ceremony ; Feasts food preparation ; Subsistence economy ; Architecture, Domestic ; Rites and ceremonies ; Play children ; Cookery ; Hunting ; Tools and other implements ; Mortuary customs ; Socialization