Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea, reel 6
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1982.7.1-6
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United States. Department of Agriculture
label: Collection Creator
content: Brandes, E. W. (Elmer Walker)), b. 1891
label: Collection Creator
content: Peck, Richard K.
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content: Sugar Plant Hunting by Airplane in New Guinea
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white silent, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
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 reel (reel 6) includes shots of coastal village at Hula. Scenes include rows of raised house built near water, children and adults in dugout outrigger canoes, large seagoing canoes on the beach, natives dressed in European-style clothing (indicating missionary influence), shot of an albino child, and a widow and two male kinsmen dressed in traditional mourning attire. Also shots of expedition member with specimens of sugar cane; return on ship to Queenland; various shipboard scenes. Film has intertitles.

Legacy Keywords: Acculturation clothing ; Canoes outriggers ; Canoes seasoing canoes ; Mourning practices associated with dress ; Agricultural crops sugar cane ; Albinism human ; Houses stilts ; Sugarcane ; Dress adornment ; Language and culture