Africa
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1987.9.26
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
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content: Laura Boulton films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (40 minutes, black-and-white silent; 1,072 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1934
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 on two separate expeditions to west and central Africa. Sites recorded include Dahomey (Benin) and Bamako, Mopti, Sangha, Gao, and Timbuktu in French Sudan (Mali). Ethnic groups include Bini, Chokwe, Dogon (Habbé), Malinké, Mbundu, Moors, and Taureg. Documentation features the lost-wax bronze casting technique (Dahomey); Malinké masks with musicians playing the kora or bulon bata; Chokwe and Mbundu dance and games; a Dogon market with shots around the Sangha countryside; various Dogon masks including the kanaga and monkey masks; Dogon women dancing with gourd "drums" and men dancing with yo domolo (staff for ritual thief); and scenes of Timbuktu including "Moorish soldiers" on camels outside the city and Tuareg men on horseback. Also included are games and dance by women and children and an elder musician playing cngare (curved xylophone) in Portuguese West Africa (Angola).

Legacy Keywords: Houses thatched West Africa ; Art bronzework Dahomey ; Craftsmen ironworkers bronzeworkers West Africa ; Musical instruments kora drums ylophones West Africa Angola ; Music Africa ; Dance ; Markets Timbuctoo Mali ; Houses Toga Nu men's palaver house Mali ; Food preparation mortar and pestle onion balls Mali ; Drums initiation rites Mali ; Initiations masked dance Dogon village Mali ; Masks Dogon masked society monkey heyana kanaga Fulani Mali ; Gourds used as drums women drummers Dogon ; Cities Timbuctoo Niger ; Horsemanship camels Tuaregs Niger ; Weapons Tuareg Timbuctoo ; Garb veils used by horsemen Timbuctoo ; Money cowrie shells Mali ; Rituals masked society Dogon Mali ; Games Angola ; Villages Sangha cliff dwellings Mali ; Language and culture