The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific (Outtakes)
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 2015.17.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Low, Sam
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content: The Navigators: Pathfinders of the Pacific
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 55 Film reels (color sound; 55,300 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Outtakes, shot on the atoll of Satawal in the Caroline Islands under the supervision of anthropologist Sam Low, explores the continuity of Polynesian navigational methods. Footage includes: boat handling, men building a canoe and braiding rope, a communal fishing expedition, prayer at a Christian chapel, and women preparing food including coconut and breadfruit. Emphasis is on navigation as dying art.  Cinematography by Boyd Estus.