Ik Film Study
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1991.13.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Towles, Joseph A.
label: Collection Creator
content: Turnbull, Colin M.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (1 hour 36 minutes, color silent; 3,439 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964-1965
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 among the Ik, a formerly nomadic hunting and gathering people of northeast Uganda. Footage documents the fragmentation of Ik life caused by drought and displacement from their traditional hunting territory. Included are: ecology and terrain of the Ik homeland, life around homesteads, relocation of a homestead, cultivation of rocky mountainsides with hoes and digging sticks, last ritual priest of the Ik divining with sandals, calabash carving, Ik men making spears and headrests, interactions between Ik and Turkana around cattle, and butchering a cow.

Supplementary materials: annotations (recorded narratives).