AUFS Afghanistan Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1975.2.1 - 19
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: 2 Film reels (43 minutes, two film reels (1,546 feet) assembled film rolls 33 (camera rolls 65,66) and 34 (camera rolls 67,68), 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: Man and his sons winnowing and washing grain next to irrigation canal; sifting grain in wooden winnowing tray; weighting and measuring the wheat grain; milling the grain on a water-driven millstone; shots of the mill works including sluice for water, enslosure where millstone and hopper are housed; man emptying wheat into hopper; long-range shots overlooking valley; herders shearing sheep with manual shears; herders resting to take their afernoon repast.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Wheat winnowing washing Afghanistan ; Mills mill-stone water-drives Afghanistan ; Food preparation wheat milling Afghanistan ; Garb turbans skullcaps Muslims Afghanistan ; Weighing grains Afghanistan ; Animal husbandry sheep shearing Afghanistan ; Wool sheep Afghanistan ; Merchants markets Afghanistan ; Shops eating vendors Afghanistan ; Animal husbandry goats Afghanistan ; Work groups father-and-sons Afghanistan ; Meals herders Afghanistan

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