AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 21
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (29 minutes, one film reel (1,041 feet) assembled film roll 37 (camera rolls 73,74), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
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: Full film record shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: sheep herders drawing water and watering herd in a stone trough; scenes around a threshing floor where men are winnowing wheat by tossing chaff and grain into air with pitchforks; man playing a flute at the threshing floor, others chanting to accompany work.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Wells cisterns in relation to herding Afghanistan ; Herding sheep Afghanistan ; Garb turbans skullcaps Muslims Afghanistan ; Animal husbandry sheep herding Afghanista ; Pastoral activities herding watering Afghanistan ; Threshing wheat Afghanistan ; Work groups agricultural activities Afghanistan ; Musical instruments flutes Afghanistan ; Music singing as palliative to work Afghanistan

Credits: Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Hancock, David filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980