Fiji War Dance at Beqa
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1989.2.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (Ananda Kentish), 1877-1947
label: Collection Creator
content: Holmes, Burton, 1870-1958
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content: Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (7 minutes, silent black-and-white; 139 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1925
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: Incomplete edited film of three Fijian dances which captures the visual elements of these performances. Dances include a sitting dance, club dance, and spear dance. Shown are sitting women with musical accompaniment in the form of clapping and bamboo stamping tubes, dancers oiled with perfumed oil as a sign of appreciation, and adult male dancers wielding war clubs adorned in barkcloth and pandanus sheaths in a standing male dance known as a meke wau, and a performance which depicts historical battles. Film concludes with a spear dance by adolescent males.