Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, reel 3
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1982.7.1-3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
label: Collection Creator
content: Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
label: Collection Creator
content: Peck, Richard K.
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content: Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
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: Edited film reel (reel 3) includes aerial and ground shots of Lake Murry and areas of the Upper Fly River; native villages with tree houses; shots of aircraft landing on the lake and hundreds of natives gathering about the plane; bartering between natives and members of the expedition; close up shots of natives in their canoes with bows and spears, males adorned with shells, feathers, boar tusks; shot of a native with a human skull; sugar cane specimens. Film has intertitles.

Legacy Keywords: Settlement patterns villages ; Agricultural crops gardens ; Cannibalism skull ; Canoes outriggers ; Barter Europeans natives ; Houses tree houses ; Warfare fortifications tree houses ; Weapons spears bows ; Adornment feathers shells ; Hair styles braids ; Airplanes for exploration Papua New Guinea ; Language and culture