[Marshall !Kung Expedition III]
name: label: Collection Collaborator
content: McElwee, Ross
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Blitz, Daniel
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bishop, John Melville
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Baker, Peter
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Ritchie, Claire
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Young, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Terry, John
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Galvin, Frank
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Bestall, Clifford
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Gardner, Robert
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Asch, Timothy, 1932-1994
label: Collection Creator
content: Marshall, John, 1932-2005
label: Collection Collaborator
content: Marshall, Lorna
setName: label: See more items in
content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection
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content: John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman film and video collection / Series 1: Unedited Film and Video Projects
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (silent, color/black-and-white reversal; 80,000 feet (37 hours), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952-1953
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
otherfindaid: label: 83.11.3 shot log pdf
content: NMNH-83_11_3_shotlogs.pdf
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae-Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert
in Namibia, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
Footage documents both the hunting and gathering lifeways of the Ju/'hoansi as well as
aspects of their historical association with Herero and Tswana pastoralists. Locations
include Gam, /Kai /Kai, and /Gautcha waterholes. Documentation of Ju/'hoan subsistence
practices includes: gathering gum, baobab and palm fruit, and mangetti nuts; digging ubee
and khoa water roots; picking oley and !naa berries; collecting salt at a pan; and tracking,
shooting, butchering, and cooking large and small game (including giraffe, eland,
gemsbok, wildebeest, duiker, badger, warthog, ostrich, tortoise, and python). Other footage
documents: technologies (net making and the manufacture of string, arrows, and poison),
distribution of meat and sociability around skerms (shelters), divining with oracle discs,
trance-dancing and curing, nursing babies, making toy cars, "rolling" fire with firesticks,
playing musical instruments (one-string violin and //uashie), and activities around
waterholes. Also included is footage on the Mutues, a Bantu-speaking people of Angola.
The published titles THE HUNTERS, RITE OF PASSAGE, and !KUNG BUSHMEN
HUNTING EQUIPMENT were produced from this project. Footage removed for !KUNG
BUSHMEN HUNTING EQUIPMENT was discovered in the 2005 accession and is
numbered 2005.11.44. Footage primarily shot by John Marshall; additional photography
by Laurence Marshall and Lorna Marshall.