[Marshall !Kung Expedition IV]
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
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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/sound, color reversal; 45,000 feet (21.75 hours), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1983.11, File 83.11.4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
otherfindaid: label: 83.11.4 shot log pdf; 2 movie clips
content: NMNH-83_11_4_shotlogs.pdf
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot during an expedition to the Kalahari Desert in Namibia and
Botswana, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
Footage primarily documents the hunting-and- gathering activities, domestic life, and
music and dance of the /Gwi San in the central Kalahari Desert (Botswana).
Documentation includes: gathering mangetti nuts, digging for poison grubs, gathering
tsama melons and digging roots, setting snares and hunting with bows and arrows in the
veldt, squeezing water from roots, sharing meat at the werft, collecting honey, squeezing
and drinking water from the rumen (stomach) of large game, technologies (arrowmaking,
working skins, and making cord from sansiveria leaves), sociability and ritual life (circle
dance, scarification of women, porcupine game, hyena intercourse game, wrestling,
storytelling, and music-making), and composing songs on the musical bow (with
resonator) and //uashie (harp). Some documentation of the Ju/'hoansi at /Gatucha (Nyae
Nyae region) includes: hunting and gathering activities, domestic life, and music and
dance. Also included are various scenes around waterholes; San around Bachkalahari
kraals; interaction between Herero, San, and Bantu peoples near police post and provision
station; and various scenes of the Marshall expedition. The published title BITTER
MELONS was produced from this project. Footage shot by John Marshall.