New Guinea, Southwest Coast (Asmat) -- Decorating a Bamboo Signal Horn
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.732; E00646
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (5 minutes, color silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1961
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: shows the detail work involved as a man carves a relief design on a piece of bamboo. His tools are a small chisel made from a large iron nail and a piece of stone serving as a hammer. After the horn is finished another man carefully judges the quality of the piece.
Legacy Keywords: Indonesia ; New Guinea, Southwest Coast ; Oceania; Asmat