Newari Film Project (1986.13.1-3)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1986.13.1-3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Anthropological Film Center (U.S.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Johnson, Barbara
label: Collection Creator
content: Dorjee, Ragpa
label: Collection Creator
content: Reinhard, Johan
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content: National Anthropological Film Center films of Nepal
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content: National Anthropological Film Center films of Nepal / Newari Film Project (1986.13.1)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
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 by Barbara Johnson among the Jyapu subcaste of the Newars of Tawnany Tole, Thecho village in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal; July 27 ll AM, two women prepare a warp for weaving cloth, wrapping thread onto a set of bamboo poles upright in the ground, and spanning about 50 ft; July 31, 9:30 - 12, two men whet traditional knives on stones in front of a large puddle in the courtyard; an elderly woman removes red peppers from the hemp braid they had been hanging in, to spread them onto a mat to dry in the sun. A mother and her newborn son sit on a mat; she cleans his ears and then begins to oil him, then taking her ownshirt off so that she can be oiled, a daily ritual for mothers and their newborns. Her hair is caught up in two buns, a practice used only during the oiling; she will fashion her hair into one bun when she is finished with the oil massage. Children sharpen peach stones on a rock; a woman sitting in a doorway spins thread as she talks with another next to her who is being groomed by a third woman. Several women who are drying grain on mats turn it over and sift it with their feed. Red chili peppers can be seen hanging from the eaves to dry. The last 400 ft were shot from the third floor window of the house in which the filmmaker stayed.