Wonders of the Sahara
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1991.21.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Explorers Club
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content: Explorers Club films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (51 minutes, color sound; 1800 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970
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: Edited film shot by Maurice H. Stans documents Explorers Club expedition to Tchad (Chad) lead by A. Burks Summers. Footage includes: male coming of age celebration in Sara village; visit to chief of Boli village and examination of musical instruments; camp life; gazelles, waterbucks, and baboons; former French Foreign Legion posts that have been converted into administrative centers and markets for desert people; rock pile tombs, cave paintings, and stone tools; oasis of Fada; and hunting of wild onyx and barbary sheep.