Tanna Island (1975.1.2 - 9)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.2 - 9
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Müller, Kal, 1939-
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 2: Tanna Island films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 1,098 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1974
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 on Tanna Island during 1973 at Yoohnanan village ceremonial ground. Footage of informal interaction between groups of natives from surrounding villages and of an afternoon kava drinking session. Shots of natives sitting in small groups around the ceremonial ground; male orators take lead in a discussion about resuming the customary practice of wearing penis wrappers; males gathered under a crude lean-to on the ceremonial ground where afternoon sessions of kava drinking take place. Shots of a woman looking after a fire, preparing food; casual scenes of mothers interacting with children; woman taking kava roots from a basket; mother suckling her infant. Men preparing kava roots for imbibing by scraping and chewing the roots, spitting the chewed material onto leaves, pouring water over the masticated roots and straining it through coconut bark into a coconut shell bowl; elders drinking the narcotic concoction.