Tanna Island (1975.1.2 - 1)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.2 - 1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Müller, Kal, 1939-
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 2: Tanna Island films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1,195 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1974
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: Footage shot on Tanna Island during 1973 at the Yakonehnalel ceremonial ground, Yoohnanan village area. Footage includes rehearsal of the traditional male nao dances by men from a number of surrounding villages; these traditional dances (formerly outlawed by missionaries) are part of the revitalization of "customs" practiced by members of the John Frum cargo cult as is the wearing of penis wrappers. Shots of dances as observed by women, girls, and older men. Various shots of dance sequences and onlookers: nao dancers with pliant wild cane dance staffs as they move en masse about the dance ground; shots panning the ceremonial ground after end of dance rehearsal; children resting on a log, natives eating, one grooming another; spontaneous scuffle between two boys; dancers at rest; natives eating beneath a tree; shots of one group of nao dancers ceremoniously carrying kave roots across the dance ground and depositing them in an adjacent grove of trees; these large kava roots are typically exchanged between dance groups from surrounding villages (as are pigs and gifts of "lap-lap").