Asia
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1987.9.11 - 6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
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content: Laura Boulton films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (29 minutes, color silent; 1,029 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950
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 by Laura Boulton in the Nilgiri Hills (otherwise known as the Blue Hills) of India among the Todas. Shots depict scenes of daily Toda life in and around their distinctive hamlets and houses, examples of family life, traditional greetings and deference shown to men by women who kiss the feet of Toda men, Todas herding and miling their cattle, examples of Toda dance and musical instruments, and a funeral at which a bull is wrestled to the ground by men.

Legacy Keywords: Architecture houses Toda Nilgiri Hills, India ; Dances Toda India ; Musical instruments Toda horns drums Nilgiri Hills, India ; Villages Toda Nilgiri Hills, India ; Greetings kissing of feet Toda ; Deference greetings Toda India ; Pastoralism cattle Toda India ; Funerals bull wrestling Toda ; Division of labor by sex Toda ; Hair treatment of Toda India ; Pilgrims festivals mela India ; Transportation oxen Toda ; Peasants Todas India