AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 11
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 1975-002
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (26 minutes, one film reel (896 feet) assembled film rolls 18 (camera rolls 35,36), 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
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 shot in north central Afghanistan in a mountain village near Mazar. Shots include: a sheepherder with his flock at a watering trough; drawing water from a well with a leather pouch to water sheep; long-range shots of the surrounding habitat; sheep being driven across slope away from watering trough; a sheepherder with his gun and donkey; shots of a theshing floor stacked with wheat for threshing; men reaping wheat on steep mountain slopes; long-range shots of circular mountian dwellings; a mountain compound with corral.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Herders goats sheep Afghanistan ; Burdens use of animals to carry Afghanistan ; Animal husbandry goats sheep Afghanistan ; Garb turbans Muslims Afghanistan ; Agricultural crops wheat Afghanistan ; Harvests wheat Afghanistan ; Dwellings nomadic Afghanistan ; Corals Afghanistan

Credits: Hancock, David filmmaker ; Di Gioia, Herbert filmmaker ; Powell, Josephine ; Shafak, Toryali ; Dupree, Louis ; Dupree, Nancy, 1935-1980