Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles films
name: label: Creator
content: Towles, Joseph A.
label: Creator
content: Turnbull, Colin M.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Ituri Forest (Congo)
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
label: Place
content: Belgian Congo
label: Place
content: Mbandaka (Congo)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Myrtle G. Glascoe, The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, in 1991.
creator: label: Creator
content: Towles, Joseph A.
label: Creator
content: Turnbull, Colin M.
culture: label: Culture
content: Bira (African people)
label: Culture
content: Ndaka (African people)
label: Culture
content: Mbuti (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (32,350 ft)
label: Extent
content: Video recordings
label: Extent
content: Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1991.13
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Sound films
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Titles are supplied by the archivist for untitled films.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage shot by Colin Turnbull and Joseph Towles among the Mbuti Pygmies, Zaire and the Ik, Uganda, between 1954 and 1972.  Footage documents the nkumbi initiations among the Mbuti, villager-Pygmy interactions; subsistence and daily life among the Ik pastoralists of northwestern Uganda.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Joseph A. Towles Papers are held by the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston.