Gilbert Islands, Nonuti (Micronesians) -- Communal Fishing by Fencing Off a Lagoon Bight
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.748; E00846
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (11 minutes, black-and-white silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964
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: several men of the atoll Nonuti cut branches of the Guettarda speciosa plant in the bush and use more than 200 of these stakes to enclose an inlet of the lagoon. During the next ebbtide the men fasten coconut leaf mats to the stakes and weigh them down with stones in order to catch fish swimming into the inlet. When the water recedes men, boys, and children hunt the trapped fish, killing them with bush knives and clubs or catching them with their bare hands.
Legacy Keywords: Kiribati ; Gilbert Islands, Nonuti ; Oceania; Micronesians