Zimba Research Film
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1983.5.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gibson, Gordon D.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Gordon Gibson films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (58 minutes, color sound; 2100 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971
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: Full film record of a research film project documenting the Zimba, a pastoral Bantu people of southwestern Angola. Footage documents the organization of Zimba homesteads, role of women in the domestic economy, and men engaged in pastoral activities. Sequences include: women threshing, winnowing, and stamping millet (for cereal and beer); milking cows; watering cattle; weaving baskets; and making fences to protect their fields. Men are shown churning milk and herding and watering cattle.

Legacy Keywords: Visima ; Kapupu ; Omusupi ; Kaumbila ; Luhuna ; Balundu ; Kawiyu ; Language and culture ; Domestic life ; Women Africa ; Division of labor by sex threshing grain millet ; Food preparation winnowing grain ; Basketry winnowing ; Speech greetings ; Domestic activities food preparation milk ; Food preparation graineries ; Alcohol beermaking grain ; Adornment rites of passage headdress ; Adornment women hair styles ; Pastoral activities watering ; Hair styles males females life cycle social identity ; Children food preparation ; Tillage fences division of labor by sex women ; Tillage women ; Tools agricultural ; Trade tools textiles ; Acculturation dress clothing ; Music tillage rhythms ; Food preparation mortar-and-pestle ; Division of labor by sex tillage ; Angola Zimba Damba Region