Tanna Island (1975.1.2 - 4)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.1.2 - 4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Müller, Kal, 1939-
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
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content: Kal Muller films and photographs of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) / Series 2: Tanna Island films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (color sound; 384 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973-1974
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: Footage shot on Tanna Island during 1974 at the Infulia (Yabgasip) ceremonial ground, Infulia village area south of Yoohnanan. Footage includes rehearsal of toka dances (formerly outlawed by missionaries) which are part of the revitalization practices of the John Frum cargo cult members; toka dancers in ceremonial regalia with dance crooks; peregrinations of a single dancer with "sword" around the communal dance group; mock sparring of two individual dancers with swords; mid-range shots of toka dancers moving en masse back and forth and in a tight circle across the ceremonial ground; dispersal of dancers at completion of dance sequence. (An essential reference for ethnographic background on activities depicted is: Guiart, Jean 1956 Un siecle et Demi de Contacts Culturels a Tanna, Publications de la Societe des Oceanistes, No. 5, Musee de l'Homme: Paris.)