The Wild Heart of Africa
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1990.7.11
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Oregon Historical Society
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content: Oregon Historical Society's Robert McCoy films
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content: Film reels (black-and-white silent; 2675 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Incomplete edited film documents the Walker-Arbuthnot African Expedition. This hunting expedition was led by two Stanford University graduates who traveled up the Nile to Luxor and Assuan with stops at river villages; Omdurman, Sudan; and Lake Manyara and Arusha (Tanzania). Scenes of ethnographic interest include: hunting camp with local workers; tribal group, the M'Bugwes, doing a n'goma; Masai visiting base camp; and barazza, a dance performance. Live animals shown include: elephants, ostriches, rhinoceros, eland, giraffe, hyena, and impalas. Footage also includes capturing a lion cub, skinning a hippotamus, butchering an elephant, and displaying hunting trophies.